Mooney M20C
N2783W is a Mooney M20C, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1966. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Hood River, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 21, 2024 and expires on January 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Mooney
- Model
- M20C · all M20Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- 3361
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1966
- Cruising speed
- 127 mph
- Transponder code
- A2C70A (octal 50543412)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 21, 2024
- Expires
- January 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- January 21, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00520055
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Crain James D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3920 Blackberry Dr
Hood River, OR 97031-7789
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N2783W, 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 Crain James D, an individual, certificate issued January 21, 2024, expires January 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3361 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N2783W 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 N2783W: Accident on August 31, 2026 at Mount Hood, OR: fatal, substantial damage (2 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 M20C · operated under 091
On August 31, 2026, about 1131 Pacific daylight time, a Mooney M20C, N2783W, was destroyed when it was involved in an accident near Hood River, Oregon. The pilot and flight instructor were fatally injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 instructional flight. A witness reported that the airplane was based at Jernstedt Airfield (4S2), Hood River, Oregon, and was conducting a local flight approximately 10 miles southwest of the airport while maneuvering in the Parkdale Valley area. One witness reported observing the airplane perform several maneuvers c…
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
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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