Mooney Aircraft Corp. M20K
N21439 is a Mooney Aircraft Corp. M20K, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1997. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Reno, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 28, 2004 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 15, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Mooney Aircraft Corp.
- Model
- M20K · all M20Ks and related versions
- Serial number
- 25-2017
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor TSIO-360 SER · 225 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- A1CB41 (octal 50345501)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 28, 2004
- Expires
- December 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 15, 1997
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00676951
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Baxter Lawrence E
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- PO Box 12622
Reno, NV 89510-2622 - Co-owners
- Baxter Michael E
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.
Earlier use of this number 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N21439, 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 Baxter Lawrence E, a co-owned, certificate issued July 28, 2004, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 15, 1997, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 25-2017 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N21439 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Robinson Helicopter R22 (serial 0096, cancelled February 4, 1994); Piper PA-44-180 (serial 447995052, cancelled October 18, 1988). 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 N21439: Accident on January 25, 1991 at Scottsdale, AZ: no 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Robinson R-22 HP · operated under 091
THE FAILURE OF THE DRIVE BELTS DUE TO EXCESSIVE WEAR OF THE CLUTCH ASSEMBLY UPPER SHEAVE AND THE PILOT'S INACCURATE FLARE DURING THE TERMINATION OF THE AUTOROTATION. A FACTOR IN THE ACCIDENT WAS THE INADEQUATE DESIGN OF THE CLUTCH ASSEMBLY UPPER SHEAVE.
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
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