Mooney M20R
N5285P is a Mooney M20R, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1996. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Frank Investments INC, a corporation in Austin, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 22, 2026 and expires on July 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 29, 1996.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Mooney
- Model
- M20R · all M20Rs and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and aluminiumA welded steel-tube frame carries the loads, with aluminium (and some fibreglass) skins over it. The first M20 and M20A (1955 to 1960) had wooden wings and tails; all later ones are metal. This is how the Mooney M-20 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 29-0081
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-550 SERIES · 300 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1996
- Transponder code
- A6A9BB (octal 51524673)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 22, 2026
- Expires
- July 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- July 22, 2026
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 29, 1996
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00495931
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Frank Investments INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 3503 Misty Creek Dr
Austin, TX 78735-1405
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N5285P links to the rest of the register
- Mooney M-20 6,247 registered
- Mooney 5,396 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental IO-550 series 3,077 aircraft with this engine series · 300 hp
- Frank Investments INC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Austin, TX 787 aircraft registered in this town
- Austin Executive · EDC
- Austin-Bergstrom International · AUS
- San Marcos Regional · HYI
- Texas 29,911 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Mooney M-20 66 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Mooney M-20 627 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Mooney M-20 495 supplemental type certificates
- Failure reports on the Continental IO-550 series 239 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N5285P, 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 Frank Investments INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 22, 2026, expires July 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated March 29, 1996, consistent with the 1996 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 29-0081 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5285P according to the deregistered file. [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 N5285P. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data