Mooney M20J
N57135 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 an individual in Lambert, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 5, 2012 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 30, 1983.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Mooney
- Model
- M20J · all M20Js and related versions
- Serial number
- 24-1427
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER A&C · 200 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1983
- Cruising speed
- 126 mph
- Transponder code
- A754FF (octal 51652377)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 5, 2012
- Expires
- June 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 19, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · November 30, 1983
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00430546
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ligon Brian
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 300 1St Ave N
Lambert, MT 59243
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N57135, 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 Ligon Brian, an individual, certificate issued June 5, 2012, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated November 30, 1983, consistent with the 1983 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 24-1427 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N57135 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Wiley W C DOUBLE EAGLE 3 (serial 1, cancelled November 7, 1980). 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 N57135. 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 October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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