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N5042K

Navion NAVION A

Valid Illinois

N5042K is a Navion NAVION A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Troy, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 21, 2022 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated February 5, 1960.

Aircraft

Maker
Navion
Model
NAVION A · all NAVION As and related versions
Serial number
NAV-4-1654
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor E185 SERIES · 205 hp
Seats
4
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
120 mph
Transponder code
A64B74 (octal 51445564)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 21, 2022
Expires
April 30, 2029
Last FAA action
July 28, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · February 5, 1960
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00191085

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Meinen Albert D
Type
Individual
Address
88 W Lake Dr
Troy, IL 62294-1732

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N5042K, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Meinen Albert D, an individual, certificate issued April 21, 2022, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial NAV-4-1654 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N5042K according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N5042K: Accident on February 20, 2022 at Livingston, IL: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

CEN22LA128Accident on February 20, 2022 at Livingston, IL: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Ryan L17 · operated under 091

A total loss of engine power due to fuel injection system contamination from an unknown source.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN22LA128 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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