Mooney Aircraft Corp. M20K
N231FW is a Mooney Aircraft Corp. M20K, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1981. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Jean, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 11, 2019 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 30, 1981.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Mooney Aircraft Corp.
- Model
- M20K · all M20Ks and related versions
- Serial number
- 25-0633
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor TSIO-360 SER · 225 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1981
- Transponder code
- A20CC9 (octal 50406311)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 11, 2019
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · November 30, 1981
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00074480
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Van Frank Steven
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 19563
Jean, NV 89019-9563
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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N231FW, 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 Van Frank Steven, an individual, certificate issued March 11, 2019, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated November 30, 1981, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 25-0633 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N231FW was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mooney Aircraft Corp. M20K (serial 250228, cancelled May 17, 1995). 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 N231FW: Accident on July 3, 1992 at Oconto Falls, WI: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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 M20K · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN ADEQUATE CLEARANCE FROM OBSTRUCTIONS DURING A LOW PASS.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI92FA195 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