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N1079S

Mooney M20J

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesVirginia

N1079S 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 Acorn Flying Club Of Roanoke LLC, an LLC in Roanoke, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 13, 2007 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 2, 1990.

Aircraft

Maker
Mooney
Model
M20J · all M20Js and related versions
Serial number
24-3169
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
1990
Cruising speed
126 mph
Transponder code
A02259 (octal 50021131)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
Certificate issued
March 13, 2007
Expires
January 31, 2030
Last FAA action
September 30, 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 · June 2, 1990
FAA region
EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00755051

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Acorn Flying Club Of Roanoke LLC
Type
LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
Address
3704 Brambleton Ave
Roanoke, VA 24018-3639

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N1079S, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Acorn Flying Club Of Roanoke LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 13, 2007, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated June 2, 1990, consistent with the 1990 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 24-3169 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N1079S according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N1079S. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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