North American NAVION
N8618H is a North American NAVION, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1947. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in New Salem, Massachusetts. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 7, 2023 and expires on June 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated August 5, 1955.
Aircraft
- Maker
- North American
- Model
- NAVION · all NAVIONs and related versions
- Serial number
- NAV-4-583
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor E225-4 · 225 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1947
- Cruising speed
- 126 mph
- Transponder code
- ABD606 (octal 52753006)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 7, 2023
- Expires
- June 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- June 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · August 5, 1955
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00002481
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lett Jefferson
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 38 Blueberry Hill Rd
New Salem, MA 01355-9529
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 N8618H, 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 Lett Jefferson, an individual, certificate issued June 7, 2023, expires June 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 5, 1955, 8 years after the 1947 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-4-583 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8618H 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 N8618H: Accident on May 1, 2026 at New Salem, MA: minor 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: North American NAVION · operated under 091
On May 1, 2026, about 1910 eastern daylight time, a North American Navion, N8618H, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near New Salem, Massachusetts. The pilot received minor injuries. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. According to the pilot, he conducted a routine preflight inspection, which included flight controls, oil level, and fuel sump checks. Following his inspection, he started the aircraft and taxied to the runway run-up area. The before takeoff checks were normal with no abnormalities observed befor…
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA26LA198 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data