Ryan NAVION B
N5235K is a Ryan NAVION B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1950. It has 5 seats. It is registered to an individual in Troy, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 15, 2024 and expires on April 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated October 22, 1955.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Ryan
- Model
- NAVION B · all NAVION Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 2135B
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming GO-435C&D SER · 260 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1950
- Cruising speed
- 126 mph
- Transponder code
- A69724 (octal 51513444)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 15, 2024
- Expires
- April 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- April 16, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · October 22, 1955
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00952425
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Meinen Albert D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 88 W Lake Dr
Troy, IL 62294-1732
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 N5235K, 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 Meinen Albert D, an individual, certificate issued April 15, 2024, expires April 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 22, 1955, 5 years after the 1950 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2135B for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5235K 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 N5235K: Accident on June 21, 2002 at Raleigh, NC: 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: Navion Nav4 · operated under 091
the pilot's inadequate preflight planning, improper fuel consumption calculations, and selection of the auxiliary fuel tank for landing, which resulted in a loss of engine power due to fuel starvation, and forced landing in trees. A factor in this accident was the pilot's lack of total experience in type of aircraft.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA02LA116 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