Ryan NAVION B
N5401K 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 Rixeyville, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 28, 2025 and expires on March 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated September 16, 2000.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Ryan
- Model
- NAVION B · all NAVION Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- NAV4-2096B
- 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
- A6DA71 (octal 51555161)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 28, 2025
- Expires
- March 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- March 28, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · September 16, 2000
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00225860
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Woodside Colleen B
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 17251 Haverford Dr
Rixeyville, VA 22737-3227
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N5401K, 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 Woodside Colleen B, an individual, certificate issued March 28, 2025, expires March 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 16, 2000, 50 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 NAV4-2096B for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5401K was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Ryan NAVION B (serial NAV42301B, cancelled December 22, 1998). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N5401K: Accident on July 11, 1997 at Garfield, CO: fatal, destroyed (4 fatal). 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 B · operated under 091
failure of the pilot to maintain adequate airspeed, during a turn to reverse direction, which resulted in a stall and collision with a pole and a building. High density altiitude was a related factor.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW97FA262 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