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N6046X

Mooney M20A

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesArizona

N6046X is a Mooney M20A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1960. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Kingman, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 16, 1973 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated August 11, 1960.

Aircraft

Maker
Mooney
Model
M20A · all M20As and related versions
Serial number
1637
Type
Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
Power
Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1960
Cruising speed
127 mph
Transponder code
A7D95B (octal 51754533)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
Certificate issued
January 16, 1973
Expires
April 30, 2029
Last FAA action
July 28, 2023
Airworthiness
StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 11, 1960
FAA region
Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00240966

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Hays Carl W
Type
IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
Address
4905 Flightline Dr
Kingman, AZ 86401

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.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N6046X, 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 Hays Carl W, an individual, certificate issued January 16, 1973, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate, dated August 11, 1960, consistent with the 1960 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1637 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N6046X according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N6046X. 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 September 30, 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