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N5686Q

Mooney M20E

Valid Tennessee

N5686Q 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 Murfreesboro, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 10, 2024 and expires on August 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 30, 1965. 2 documents are on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership), loan or lien (security agreement).

Aircraft

Maker
Mooney
Model
M20E · all M20Es and related versions
Serial number
699
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
A747DB (octal 51643733)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 10, 2024
Expires
August 31, 2031
Last FAA action
August 10, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · April 30, 1965
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00930416

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Bolton Nicolas
Type
Individual
Address
635 Lyons Farm Pkwy Apt C3303
Murfreesboro, TN 37127-5838

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Documents on file 2

2026-09-04Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)
2026-09-04Loan or lien (security agreement)

Records check free · 1 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N5686Q, 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 Bolton Nicolas, an individual, certificate issued August 10, 2024, expires August 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated April 30, 1965, consistent with the 1965 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 699 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N5686Q according to the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONRecent registry documents

1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (September 4, 2026). The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file. [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N5686Q. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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