Mooney Aircraft Corp. M20K
N231EX is a Mooney Aircraft Corp. M20K, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Cedar Park, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 7, 2023 and expires on June 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 13, 1979.
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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
- 25-0204
- 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
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1979
- Transponder code
- A20CB1 (octal 50406261)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 7, 2023
- Expires
- June 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- June 7, 2023
- 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 · August 13, 1979
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00542122
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Patete Douglas
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1220 Mathias St
Cedar Park, TX 78613-1727
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N231EX 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
- Cedar Park, TX 106 aircraft registered in this town
- Texas 29,945 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 N231EX is now · Last seen yesterday at 7:52 pm.
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The public federal record on N231EX, 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 Patete Douglas, an individual, certificate issued June 7, 2023, expires June 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated August 13, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 25-0204 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N231EX 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N231EX. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data