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N12HW

Mooney Aircraft Corp. M20K

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesDelaware

N12HW is a Mooney Aircraft Corp. M20K, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1981. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Moonfly INC Trustee, a corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 5, 2021 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 30, 1981.

Aircraft

Maker
Mooney Aircraft Corp.
Model
M20K · all M20Ks and related versions
Serial number
25-0557
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 · Cont Motor TSIO-360 SER · 225 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1981
Transponder code
A0521D (octal 50051035)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
Certificate issued
March 5, 2021
Expires
March 31, 2028
Last FAA action
April 28, 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 30, 1981
FAA region
EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00913060

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Moonfly INC Trustee
Type
CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
Address
1013 Centre Rd Ste 403-A
Wilmington, DE 19805-1270

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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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N12HW, 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 Moonfly INC Trustee, a corporation, certificate issued March 5, 2021, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated June 30, 1981, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 25-0557 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N12HW 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N12HW: Accident on March 28, 1999 at Medicine Bow, WY: 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

DEN99LA061Accident on March 28, 1999 at Medicine Bow, WY: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Mooney M20K · operated under 091

A fluctuating turbine inlet temperature and resulting loss of engine power for undetermined reasons. Factors were the rough, unsuitable terrain on which to make a forced 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