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A Mooney M-20, the same model family as N231M
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 10, 2026
N231M

Mooney Aircraft Corp. M20K

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesTexas

N231M is a Mooney Aircraft Corp. M20K, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Rhome, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 22, 2025 and expires on September 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 20, 1978.

Where is it now Last seen October 19 at 12:00 pm.

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Aircraft

Maker
Mooney Aircraft Corp.
Model
M20K · all M20Ks and related versions
Built of
steel tube and aluminium
A 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
25-0011
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
1978
Transponder code
A20D4A (octal 50406512)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
September 22, 2025
Expires
September 30, 2032
Last FAA action
September 22, 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 · December 20, 1978
FAA region
SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00312132

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Mitchell Philip A
Type
Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
958 Heritage Creek Dr
Rhome, TX 76078-2152
Co-owners
Mitchell Susan K

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

1936-10-15Boeing 80-A1 · Valid registration

Connections how N231M links to the rest of the register

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Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N231M, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Mitchell Philip A, a co-owned, certificate issued September 22, 2025, expires September 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated December 20, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 25-0011 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N231M was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Boeing 80-A1 (serial 1089, cancelled October 15, 1936). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N231M. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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, November 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data