Mooney M20J
N4498H is a Mooney M20J, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Nutley, New Jersey. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 15, 2011 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 4, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Mooney
- Model
- M20J · all M20Js and related versions
- Serial number
- 24-0787
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER A&C · 200 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1979
- Cruising speed
- 126 mph
- Transponder code
- A56F84 (octal 51267604)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 15, 2011
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 4, 1979
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00922704
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Westervelt Susan
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 67 Kenzel Ave
Nutley, NJ 07110-1041
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 N4498H, 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 Westervelt Susan, an individual, certificate issued August 15, 2011, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated April 4, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 24-0787 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4498H was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-15 (serial 15-287, cancelled June 1, 1949). 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 N4498H: Accident on March 30, 2001 at Pecos, TX: 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 M20J · operated under 091
the pilot's failure to obtain a proper glide path during landing, which resulted in the airplane's impact with terrain short of the runway. Contributory factors were the open baggage door and the pilot's diverted attention to the open door.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW01LA090 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