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N5550Q

Mooney M20E

N5550Q is a Mooney M20E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1965. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in La Jolla, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 3, 1991 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 26, 1965.

Aircraft

Maker
Mooney
Model
M20E · all M20Es and related versions
Serial number
628
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1965
Cruising speed
127 mph
Transponder code
A71465 (octal 51612145)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 3, 1991
Expires
October 31, 2028
Last FAA action
June 16, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · February 26, 1965
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00443585

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Real Jonathan Dan
Type
Individual
Address
5539 Ladybird Ln
La Jolla, CA 92037-7721

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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N5550Q, 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 Real Jonathan Dan, an individual, certificate issued October 3, 1991, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated February 26, 1965, consistent with the 1965 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 628 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N5550Q 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 N5550Q: Accident on December 23, 2004 at Telluride, CO: no injuries, substantial damage. 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

DEN05LA043Accident on December 23, 2004 at Telluride, CO: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Mooney M20E · operated under 091

the pilot's improper in-flight decision making and inadvertent retraction of the landing gear resulting in a wheels up landing. A contributing factor included the pilot's attention being diverted by the seized engine tachometer.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN05LA043 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