Ryan NAVION
N4969K is a Ryan NAVION, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1949. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Louisville, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 23, 2007 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Ryan
- Model
- NAVION · all NAVIONs and related versions
- Serial number
- NAV-4-1969
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor E225 SERIES · 225 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1949
- Cruising speed
- 126 mph
- Transponder code
- A629FF (octal 51424777)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 23, 2007
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00800715
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mills William R
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 16804 Crosstimbers Ct
Louisville, KY 40245-8412 - Co-owners
- Mills Karen S
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N4969K, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Mills William R, a co-owned, certificate issued August 23, 2007, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial NAV-4-1969 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4969K according to the deregistered file. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
1 NTSB record under N4969K: Accident on March 9, 1997 at Marina, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Ryan NAVION · operated under 091
Fuel exhaustion due to the pilot's improper preflight inspection and his inaccurate fuel consumption calculations.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX97LA115 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data