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N520W

Monocoupe 90

N520W is a Monocoupe 90, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1930. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Lomita, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 18, 2016 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated January 7, 1966.

Aircraft

Maker
Monocoupe
Model
90 · all 90s and related versions
Serial number
559
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lambert R266 · 90 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1930
Cruising speed
72 mph
Transponder code
A68AE2 (octal 51505342)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 18, 2016
Expires
August 31, 2029
Last FAA action
August 25, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · January 7, 1966
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00722295

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Roberts Nancy
Type
Individual
Address
PO Box 516
Lomita, CA 90717-0516

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.

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N520W, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Roberts Nancy, an individual, certificate issued August 18, 2016, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 7, 1966, 36 years after the 1930 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 559 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N520W according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N520W: Accident on July 30, 1991 at Eagle, CO: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

DEN91DTE01Accident on July 30, 1991 at Eagle, CO: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).serial on NTSB record: 254

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Warner, David B. GLASAIR-SHA · operated under 091

THE PILOT-IN-COMMAND'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN AIRSPEED WHILE MANEUVERING IN A TURN DURING INITIAL TAKEOFF CLIMB, RESULTING IN AN IN FLIGHT LOSS OF CONTROL, STALL, AND IN FLIGHT COLLISION WITH TERRAIN. FACTORS WERE: EXCESSIVE BANK ANGLE AND ABRUPT MANEUVER AT A LOW ALTITUDE INSUFFICIENT TO EFFECT A RECOVERY.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN91DTE01 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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