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N5659L

Mooney Aircraft Corp. M20K

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesIndiana

N5659L is a Mooney Aircraft Corp. M20K, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1983. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Kool Wings Leasing LLC, an LLC in Indianapolis, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 16, 2024 and expires on July 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 8, 1983.

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Aircraft

Maker
Mooney Aircraft Corp.
Model
M20K · all M20Ks and related versions
Built of
steel tube and aluminium
A 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
25-0762
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 TSIO-360 SER · 225 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1983
Transponder code
A73D1B (octal 51636433)

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 16, 2024
Expires
July 31, 2031
Last FAA action
July 16, 2024
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 8, 1983
FAA region
Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00720346

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Kool Wings Leasing LLC
Type
LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
6137 Simien Rd
Indianapolis, IN 46237-3059

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Connections how N5659L links to the rest of the register

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The public federal record on N5659L, 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 Kool Wings Leasing LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 16, 2024, expires July 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated August 8, 1983, consistent with the 1983 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 25-0762 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N5659L 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 N5659L: Accident on October 14, 2003 at Grand Junction, CO: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

DEN04LA010Accident on October 14, 2003 at Grand Junction, CO: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Mooney M20K · operated under 091

the pilot's improper flare and his failure to maintain airspeed resulting in a stall and hard landing.

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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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data