Mooney Aircraft Corp. M20K
N231GG 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 Ellis Aviation LLC, an LLC in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 21, 2023 and expires on December 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 20, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Mooney Aircraft Corp.
- Model
- M20K · all M20Ks and related versions
- Serial number
- 25-0171
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor TSIO-360 SER · 225 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1979
- Transponder code
- A20CD4 (octal 50406324)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 21, 2023
- Expires
- December 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- December 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 20, 1979
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00992152
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ellis Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 641 Kings Mountain Rd
Tuscaloosa, AL 35406-2824
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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 N231GG, 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 Ellis Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 21, 2023, expires December 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated June 20, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 25-0171 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N231GG 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]
1 NTSB record under N231GG: Accident on January 3, 2024 at Tullahoma, TN: 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: Mooney M20K · operated under 091
A total loss of engine power for undetermined reasons.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA24LA082 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
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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