Mooney M20J
N1072N is a Mooney M20J, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1981. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Huntington Beach, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 2, 1986 and expires on April 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 21, 1981.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Mooney
- Model
- M20J · all M20Js and related versions
- Serial number
- 24-1125
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER A&C · 200 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1981
- Cruising speed
- 126 mph
- Transponder code
- A02160 (octal 50020540)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 2, 1986
- Expires
- April 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- June 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 21, 1981
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00633020
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Stephens Donald G
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
- Address
- 18922 Delaware St Unit 315
Huntington Beach, CA 92648-6076
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 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N1072N, 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 Stephens Donald G, an individual, certificate issued April 2, 1986, expires April 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated May 21, 1981, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 24-1125 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1072N was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Bell 206B (serial 2869, cancelled March 14, 1980); Boeing PT-13A (serial 42-17427A, cancelled August 29, 1950). 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 N1072N: Accident on November 11, 2002 at Fullerton, CA: 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: Mooney M20J · operated under 091
The pilot's inadequate preflight inspection resulting in a loss of engine power due to water contamination of the fuel system.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 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