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N1156N

Mooney M20J

Valid Texas

N1156N 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 Keller, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 13, 2023 and expires on June 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 29, 1981. 3 documents are on file: loan or lien (security agreement), bill of sale (evidence of ownership), loan release.

Aircraft

Maker
Mooney
Model
M20J · all M20Js and related versions
Serial number
24-1251
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER A&C · 200 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1981
Cruising speed
126 mph
Transponder code
A041FD (octal 50040775)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 13, 2023
Expires
June 30, 2030
Last FAA action
June 13, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · December 29, 1981
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00594360

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Patel Akash Bharat
Type
Individual
Address
720 Muirfield Rd
Keller, TX 76248-8227

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 3

2026-09-03Loan or lien (security agreement)
2026-09-03Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)
2026-09-03Loan release

Earlier use of this number 1

1965-05-18Bensen Gyro Copter B-7-M · Valid registration

Records check free · 3 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N1156N, 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 Patel Akash Bharat, an individual, certificate issued June 13, 2023, expires June 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated December 29, 1981, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 24-1251 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N1156N was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bensen Gyro Copter B-7-M (serial AP-1, cancelled May 18, 1965). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

ATTENTIONRecent registry documents

1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (September 3, 2026), and 1 release. The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file. [3]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N1156N: Accident on June 12, 2003 at Lincoln, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

LAX03CA203Accident on June 12, 2003 at Lincoln, CA: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Mooney M20J · operated under 091

The pilot's failure to extend the landing gear prior to landing.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

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