Mooney M20C
N78897 is a Mooney M20C, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1964. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Snellville, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 10, 2022 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 9, 1964. 3 documents are on file: loan or lien (security agreement), loan release, bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Mooney
- Model
- M20C · all M20Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- 2912
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1964
- Cruising speed
- 127 mph
- Transponder code
- AAB1F1 (octal 52530761)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 10, 2022
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · November 9, 1964
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00645050
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Knox Phillip A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2330 Scenic Hwy S
Snellville, GA 30078-3115
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 3
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The public federal record on N78897, 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 Knox Phillip A, an individual, certificate issued September 10, 2022, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated November 9, 1964, consistent with the 1964 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2912 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N78897 according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (September 29, 2026), and 1 release. The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N78897. 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