Mooney International Corp M20U
N197CV is a Mooney International Corp M20U, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2016. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Joseph F Gaar JR Professional Law CORP, a corporation in Lafayette, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 1, 2025 and expires on May 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 25, 2020.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Mooney International Corp
- Model
- M20U · all M20Us and related versions
- Serial number
- 32-0001
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-550 SERIES · 300 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2016
- Transponder code
- A18272 (octal 50301162)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 1, 2025
- Expires
- May 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- May 30, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 25, 2020
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01187249
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Joseph F Gaar JR Professional Law CORP
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 201 Phillip Ave
Lafayette, LA 70503-3327
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.
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The public federal record on N197CV, 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 Joseph F Gaar JR Professional Law CORP, a corporation, certificate issued May 1, 2025, expires May 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 25, 2020, 4 years after the 2016 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 32-0001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N197CV according to the deregistered file. [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 N197CV: Incident on July 21, 2019 at Oshkosh, WI: no injuries, minor 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 M20U · operated under 091
The failure of both pilots to remain clear of the other while flying in formation.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN19IA234 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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 August 27, 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