Mooney M20J
N53RH is a Mooney M20J, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1977. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Royal Blue Medical INC, a corporation in Hanceville, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 17, 2009 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 2, 2003.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Mooney
- Model
- M20J · all M20Js and related versions
- Serial number
- 24-0234
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-A1B6D · 200 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 126 mph
- Transponder code
- A6AF93 (octal 51527623)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 17, 2009
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 2, 2003
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00032129
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Royal Blue Medical INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 307 Commercial St SE
Hanceville, AL 35077-5518
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N53RH, 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 Royal Blue Medical INC, a corporation, certificate issued November 17, 2009, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 2, 2003, 26 years after the 1977 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 24-0234 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N53RH was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Kaman HH-43F (serial 591569, cancelled November 16, 1998). 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 N53RH: Accident on August 31, 1991 at Coleville, CA: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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: Kaman HH43 B/F · operated under 133
THE FAILURE OF THE PILOT TO ADEQUATELY CALCULATE THE HELICOPTER PERFORMANCE. CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACCIDENT WAS A DELAY IN JETTISONING THE EXTERNAL LOAD; THE PILOT'S OVERCONFIDENCE IN HIS ABILITIES; AND EXCEEDING OF THE HELICOPTER'S HOVER ABILITY DURING HIGH DENSITY ALTITUDE CONDITIONS.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX91LA377 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