Mooney Aircraft Corp. M20K
N21353 is a Mooney Aircraft Corp. M20K, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1998. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Elm Aviation LLC, an LLC in Norfolk, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 2, 2025 and expires on August 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 4, 1998.
Where is it now Last seen Saturday at 12:43 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Mooney Aircraft Corp.
- Model
- M20K · all M20Ks and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and aluminiumA welded steel-tube frame carries the loads, with aluminium (and some fibreglass) skins over it. The first M20 and M20A (1955 to 1960) had wooden wings and tails; all later ones are metal. This is how the Mooney M-20 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 25-2032
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor TSIO-360 SER · 225 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- A1C7CA (octal 50343712)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 2, 2025
- Expires
- August 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- August 2, 2025
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 4, 1998
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00823876
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Elm Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 11426
Norfolk, VA 23517-0426
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
Connections how N21353 links to the rest of the register
- Mooney M-20 6,245 registered
- Mooney Aircraft Corp. 852 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental TSIO-360 series 1,907 aircraft with this engine series · 225 hp
- Elm Aviation LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Norfolk, VA 76 aircraft registered in this town
- Norfolk International · ORF
- Chesapeake Regional · CPK
- Hampton Roads Executive · PVG
- Virginia 5,972 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Mooney M-20 66 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Mooney M-20 627 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Mooney M-20 495 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental TSIO-360 series 25 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental TSIO-360 series 112 reports since 1995
- Where N21353 is now · Last seen Saturday at 12:43 pm.
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The public federal record on N21353, 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 Elm Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 2, 2025, expires August 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated November 4, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 25-2032 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N21353 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-32RT-300T (serial 32R7887201, cancelled October 23, 1992); Aeronca K (serial K-339, cancelled December 23, 1971). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N21353: Accident on August 31, 1989 at Wolfeboro, NH: minor injuries, destroyed. 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: Piper PA-32RT-300T · operated under 091
INADEQUATE COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS BY THE OWNER/PILOT-IN-COMMAND (PIC), HIS FAILUE TO MAINTAIN PROPER ALTITUDE ON THE APPROACH, AND FAILURE OF THE OTHER PILOT (OWNER'S INSTRUCTOR PILOT) TO TAKE REMEDIAL ACTION. FACTORS RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WERE: THE ADVERSE WIND CONDITIONS AND TREES NEAR THE APPROACH END OF THE RUNWAY.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data