Ryan NAVION B
N5237K 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 Anchorage, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 22, 2026 and expires on September 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated February 8, 1956. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Ryan
- Model
- NAVION B · all NAVION Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- NAV-4-2137B
- 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
- A6976A (octal 51513552)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 22, 2026
- Expires
- September 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · February 8, 1956
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00222445
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Foss James K
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2226 Susitna Dr
Anchorage, AK 99517-1145
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 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N5237K, 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 Foss James K, an individual, certificate issued September 22, 2026, expires September 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 8, 1956, 6 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 NAV-4-2137B for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5237K according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 24, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N5237K. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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