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N5990Q

Mooney M20E

Valid Alabama

N5990Q 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 Danville, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 14, 2016 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 11, 1965. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).

Aircraft

Maker
Mooney
Model
M20E · all M20Es and related versions
Serial number
854
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
A7C13D (octal 51740475)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
December 14, 2016
Expires
December 31, 2029
Last FAA action
September 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · October 11, 1965
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00842065

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Showman Benjamin J
Type
Individual
Address
1850 County Road 209
Danville, AL 35619-8522

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Documents on file 1

2026-09-22Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N5990Q, 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 Showman Benjamin J, an individual, certificate issued December 14, 2016, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated October 11, 1965, consistent with the 1965 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 854 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N5990Q according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 22, 2026). [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N5990Q. 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