Mooney Aircraft Corp. M20K
N40AP is a Mooney Aircraft Corp. M20K, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1981. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Caelus Air LLC, an LLC in Sheridan, Wyoming. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 14, 2020 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 22, 2012.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Mooney Aircraft Corp.
- Model
- M20K · all M20Ks and related versions
- Serial number
- 250572
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor TSIO-360 GB · 210 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1981
- Transponder code
- A4AA56 (octal 51125126)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 14, 2020
- Expires
- November 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 22, 2012
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00823020
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Caelus Air LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1309 Coffeen Ave Ste 1200
Sheridan, WY 82801-5777
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N40AP, 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 Caelus Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 14, 2020, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 22, 2012, 31 years after the 1981 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 250572 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N40AP was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Hughes Helicopters Inc HUGHES 369D (serial 1000825D, cancelled June 11, 2007). 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 N40AP: Accident on June 26, 2002 at Jeffersontown, KY: 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: Hughes 369D · operated under 091
The flight instructor's loss of lateral control when his foot slipped off the rudder pedal during a power-off, running landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC02TA123 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