Mooney M20J
N1079K is a Mooney M20J, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1990. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Smith Plane LLC, an LLC in Las Vegas, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 3, 2008 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 27, 1990.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Mooney
- Model
- M20J · all M20Js and related versions
- Serial number
- 24-3159
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER A&C · 200 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1990
- Cruising speed
- 126 mph
- Transponder code
- A02252 (octal 50021122)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 3, 2008
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 27, 1990
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00744971
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Smith Plane LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 6145 Wittig Ave
Las Vegas, NV 89131-3013
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N1079K, 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 Smith Plane LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 3, 2008, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated April 27, 1990, consistent with the 1990 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 24-3159 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1079K was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Luscombe 8A (serial 3806, cancelled April 25, 1960). 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 N1079K: Accident on September 15, 2013 at Lund, NV: 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 failure to monitor the environment, which led to a collision with power lines during climbout. Contributing to the accident was the loss of engine power during low-altitude flight for reasons that could not be determined because postaccident examination of the airframe and engine did not reveal any mechanical malfunctions or failures that would have precluded normal operation, which led to a forced landing that the pilot subsequently aborted when the engine regained full power.
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