Mooney Aircraft Corp. M20K
N52938 is a Mooney Aircraft Corp. M20K, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1988. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Fermata Aero INC, a corporation in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 28, 2025 and expires on October 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 22, 1988.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Mooney Aircraft Corp.
- Model
- M20K · all M20Ks and related versions
- Serial number
- 25-1197
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor TSIO-360 SER · 225 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1988
- Transponder code
- A6AD3F (octal 51526477)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 28, 2025
- Expires
- October 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- October 28, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 22, 1988
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00974451
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Fermata Aero INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 3870 S Brust Ave
Milwaukee, WI 53207-4064
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 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N52938, 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 Fermata Aero INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 28, 2025, expires October 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 22, 1988, consistent with the 1988 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 25-1197 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N52938 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 172P (serial 17274640, cancelled March 27, 1985); Boeing N2S-3 (serial 75-7151, cancelled December 23, 1946). 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 N52938: Accident on July 28, 1984 at Santa Fe, NM: minor 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: Cessna 172 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN84LA243 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