Mooney M20J
N57257 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 Westlake Village, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 28, 1987 and expires on May 31, 2029. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Mooney
- Model
- M20J · all M20Js and related versions
- Serial number
- 24-1605
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 126 mph
- Transponder code
- A758FE (octal 51654376)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 28, 1987
- Expires
- May 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- March 12, 2024
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00313447
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Moulton Lawrence W
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4301 Coachman Cir
Westlake Village, CA 91362-5108
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 2
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N57257, 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 Moulton Lawrence W, an individual, certificate issued January 28, 1987, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 24-1605 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N57257 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Aero Commander 500 S (serial 3197, cancelled June 2, 1981); Rockwell Commander 690A (serial 11285, cancelled June 2, 1981). 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]
1 NTSB record under N57257: Accident on October 9, 1987 at Kerrville, TX: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Mooney M-20-J · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW88LA002 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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