Mooney M20E
N1987Y is a Mooney M20E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1964. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Tipton INC, a corporation in Turners Station, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 9, 2006 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 19, 1964.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Mooney
- Model
- M20E · all M20Es and related versions
- Serial number
- 274
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1964
- Cruising speed
- 127 mph
- Transponder code
- A18947 (octal 50304507)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 9, 2006
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 19, 1964
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00973090
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Tipton INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 5944 Port Royal Rd
Turners Station, KY 40075-7220
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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 N1987Y, 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 Tipton INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 9, 2006, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated March 19, 1964, consistent with the 1964 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 274 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1987Y 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]
2 NTSB records under N1987Y: Accident on April 17, 1999 at Brooksville, KY: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). Accident on February 11, 1984 at Cleveland, OH: serious 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Mooney M20E · operated under 091
Contaminated fuel which resulted in the forced landing, and a heart attack from an adrenaline rush that interacted with preexisting coronary disease which resulted in the pilot's death.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Mooney M20E · operated under 091
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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data