Mooney M20J
N5685C is a Mooney M20J, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1983. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Ams Aviation LLC, an LLC in Fort Smith, Arkansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 27, 2021 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 9, 1983.
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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
- 24-1401
- 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 A&C · 200 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1983
- Cruising speed
- 126 mph
- Transponder code
- A747AC (octal 51643654)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 27, 2021
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 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 · September 9, 1983
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00470426
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ams Aviation 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
- 10401 Stoneleige St
Fort Smith, AR 72908-0741
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N5685C 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
- Ams Aviation LLC 11 aircraft in the fleet
- Fort Smith, AR 74 aircraft registered in this town
- Fort Smith Regional · FSM
- Arkansas 3,499 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
- Where N5685C is now · Last seen Sunday at 4:03 pm.
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The public federal record on N5685C, 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 Ams Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 27, 2021, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated September 9, 1983, consistent with the 1983 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 24-1401 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5685C was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 140A (serial 15641, cancelled April 13, 1965). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N5685C. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 4, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data