Mooney M20B
N78901 is a Mooney M20B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1961. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Sacramento, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 21, 1984 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated October 6, 1961. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Mooney
- Model
- M20B · all M20Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1915
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1961
- Cruising speed
- 127 mph
- Transponder code
- AAB467 (octal 52532147)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 21, 1984
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · October 6, 1961
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00265040
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Emslie Ronald H
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 5175
Sacramento, CA 95817-0175
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 1
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The public federal record on N78901, 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 Emslie Ronald H, an individual, certificate issued September 21, 1984, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated October 6, 1961, consistent with the 1961 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1915 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N78901 according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 16, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N78901. 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