Mooney Aircraft Corp. M20K
N252EM is a Mooney Aircraft Corp. M20K, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1986. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Novi, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 24, 2015 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 26, 1986.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Mooney Aircraft Corp.
- Model
- M20K · all M20Ks and related versions
- Serial number
- 25-1027
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor TSIO-360 SER · 225 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1986
- Transponder code
- A25F5C (octal 50457534)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 24, 2015
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 26, 1986
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00572086
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Maidens Donald S
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 25613 Hillsdale Dr
Novi, MI 48374-2158
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.
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The public federal record on N252EM, 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 Maidens Donald S, an individual, certificate issued August 24, 2015, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated March 26, 1986, consistent with the 1986 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 25-1027 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N252EM 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 N252EM: Accident on July 6, 2008 at Howell, MI: 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
The collision with a deer during the takeoff roll. Contributing to the accident was the dusk light condition.
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 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