Mooney Aircraft Corp. M20K
N3556H is a Mooney Aircraft Corp. M20K, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1980. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Rocket Joy LLC, an LLC in Aurora, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 25, 2007 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 29, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Mooney Aircraft Corp.
- Model
- M20K · all M20Ks and related versions
- Serial number
- 25-0421
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor TSIO-360 SER · 225 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1980
- Transponder code
- A3FA92 (octal 50775222)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 25, 2007
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 29, 1980
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00702893
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rocket Joy LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 21921 E Ridge Trail Cir
Aurora, CO 80016-2665
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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N3556H, 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 Rocket Joy LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 25, 2007, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated August 29, 1980, consistent with the 1980 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 25-0421 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3556H was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Engineering & Research ERCOUPE 415-C (serial 4181, cancelled December 13, 1962). 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 N3556H: Incident on March 12, 1998 at Klamath Falls, OR: no injuries, minor 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 pilot's inadequate preflight which failed to detect water contaminated fuel that subsequently led to fuel icing at altitude, blockage of fuel lines which resulted in fuel starvation. A related factor was the dark night conditions.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA98IA044 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
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