{"airworthiness_class":"Restricted","airworthiness_date":"2012-05-04","airworthiness_ops":"Other; Aerial surveying; Weather control","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2009-07-21","city":"FAIRBANKS","country_code":"US","county_code":"090","cruise_speed_mph":126,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"17162","engine_horsepower":225,"engine_maker":"CONT MOTOR","engine_model":"E225-4","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-10-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-03-24","maker":"Ryan","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"RYAN","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"6150162","mode_s_code":"51371536","mode_s_hex":"A5F35E","model":"NAVION A","n_number":"N4827K","name":"KIRST FOREST M","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Coldfoot","damage":"SUBS","date":"2014-08-24","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"ANC14FA068","probable_cause":"The pilot\u2019s improper inflight planning and improper decision to deliberately operate the airplane at low altitude in close proximity to obstructions and rising terrain. Contributing to the accident were the pilot\u2019s improper preflight planning and the Federal Aviation Administration\u2019s inappropriate decision to issue a 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 135 certificate to the operator despite the pilot\u2019s history of accidents, incidents, reexaminations, and checkride failures.","registration":"N4827K","state":"AK","summary":"Accident on August 24, 2014 at Coldfoot, AK: serious injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"KIRST TRACEY B","plain_english":"N4827K is a Ryan NAVION A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1949. It has 5 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Fairbanks, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 21, 2009 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for other; aerial surveying; weather control, dated May 4, 2012.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Kirst Forest M, a co-owned, certificate issued July 21, 2009, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 4, 2012, 63 years after the 1949 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.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial NAV-4-1827 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N4827K according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N4827K: Accident on August 24, 2014 at Coldfoot, AK: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Alaskan","region_code":"5","registrant_type":"Co-owned","registrant_type_code":"4","seats":5,"serial_number":"NAV-4-1827","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"AK","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 73621","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00010255","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N4827K","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1949,"zip":"997073621"}