Mooney M20C
N6781N is a Mooney M20C, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1968. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Decatur, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 20, 2021 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 22, 1968.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Mooney
- Model
- M20C · all M20Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- 680089
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1968
- Cruising speed
- 127 mph
- Transponder code
- A8FBF8 (octal 52175770)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 20, 2021
- Expires
- December 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- July 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 22, 1968
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00013466
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Thornton Brad
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 870 Private Road 4011
Decatur, TX 76234-5636 - Co-owners
- Thornton Lisa
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 N6781N, 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 Thornton Brad, a co-owned, certificate issued December 20, 2021, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated March 22, 1968, consistent with the 1968 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 680089 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N6781N according to the deregistered file. [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 N6781N. 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