Mooney M20J
N555ED is a Mooney M20J, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 8, 2021 and expires on November 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 29, 1978.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Mooney
- Model
- M20J · all M20Js 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
- 24-0684
- 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 · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 126 mph
- Transponder code
- A71266 (octal 51611146)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 8, 2021
- Expires
- November 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 23, 2023
- 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 · August 29, 1978
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00561834
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Poteet-Schwartz Kim L
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 814 Horned Owl Dr NE
Albuquerque, NM 87122-1460
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.
Connections how N555ED links to the rest of the register
- Mooney M-20 6,246 registered
- Mooney 5,395 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming IO-360 series 8,560 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Albuquerque, NM 1,180 aircraft registered in this town
- Albuquerque International Sunport · ABQ
- Double Eagle II Airport · AEG
- New Mexico 3,111 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
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-360 series 42 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-360 series 39 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N555ED, 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 Poteet-Schwartz Kim L, an individual, certificate issued November 8, 2021, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 24-0684 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N555ED 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]
2 NTSB records under N555ED: Accident on May 31, 2026 at Albuquerque, NM: serious injuries, substantial damage. Incident on July 24, 2024 at Appleton, WI: no injuries, minor damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Mooney M20J · operated under 091
On May 31, 2026, at 1515 mountain daylight time, a Mooney M20J, N555ED, sustained substantial damage when it was involved in an accident near Albuquerque, New Mexico. The pilot was seriously injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. The pilot reported that the flight was a post-maintenance test flight conducted at Double Eagle II Airport (AEG), Albuquerque, New Mexico, following completion of the airplane's annual inspection. Following a preflight inspection, the pilot departed with the intention of performing three stop-and-go landin…
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Mooney M20J · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain adequate wingtip clearance while taxiing. Contributing to the accident was the ambiguous nonstandard parking at the time of the incident.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 5, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data