Mooney M-18C
N492M is a Mooney M-18C, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1951. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Kansas Aviation Museum, a corporation in Wichita, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 30, 1993 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 3, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Mooney
- Model
- M-18C · all M-18Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- 245
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C65 SERIES · 65 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1951
- Cruising speed
- 103 mph
- Transponder code
- A61899 (octal 51414231)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 30, 1993
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 3, 1998
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00000575
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kansas Aviation Museum
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 3350 George Washington Blvd
Wichita, KS 67210
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 N492M, 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 Kansas Aviation Museum, a corporation, certificate issued March 30, 1993, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 3, 1998, 47 years after the 1951 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 245 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N492M was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Franklin Bros PT2 (serial 103, cancelled September 19, 1930). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N492M. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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