Mooney M20J
N243M is a Mooney M20J, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1982. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Small Hills Farms, a partnership in Durham, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 28, 2025 and expires on March 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 15, 1982.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Mooney
- Model
- M20J · all M20Js and related versions
- Serial number
- 24-1293
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER A&C · 200 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1982
- Cruising speed
- 126 mph
- Transponder code
- A23C37 (octal 50436067)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 28, 2025
- Expires
- March 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- March 28, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 15, 1982
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00561231
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Small Hills Farms
- Type
- Partnership
- Address
- 9285 Sarah Ann Ct
Durham, CA 95938-9531
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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 N243M, 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 Small Hills Farms, a partnership, certificate issued March 28, 2025, expires March 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated April 15, 1982, consistent with the 1982 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 24-1293 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N243M was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Aero Commander 200D (serial 295, cancelled October 16, 2012); Kreutzer K-5 (serial 110, cancelled July 6, 1940). 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 N243M: Accident on April 21, 2003 at Corona De Tucso, AZ: 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: Aero Commander 200D · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain an adequate clearance from obstructions while performing low level passes. The pilot's physical impairment due to a high blood alcohol level was also causal.
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