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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 28, 2026
N81DM

Mooney M20M

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesMichigan

N81DM is a Mooney M20M, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1998. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Arcanum LLC, an LLC in Lake Orion, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 9, 2026 and expires on September 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 18, 1998.

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Aircraft

Maker
Mooney
Model
M20M · all M20Ms and related versions
Built of
steel tube and aluminium
A welded steel-tube frame carries the loads, with aluminium (and some fibreglass) skins over it. The first M20 and M20A (1955 to 1960) had wooden wings and tails; all later ones are metal. This is how the Mooney M-20 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
Serial number
27-0252
Type
Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Power
Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming TI0-540 SER · 310 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1998
Transponder code
AB075A (octal 52603532)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
September 9, 2026
Expires
September 30, 2033
Last FAA action
September 9, 2026
Airworthiness
StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 18, 1998
FAA region
Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00213666

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Arcanum LLC
Type
LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
PO Box 36
Lake Orion, MI 48361-0036

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 1

—Mitsubishi MU-300 · N-number assigned but not yet registered

Connections how N81DM links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
  • Arcanum LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
Place
  • Lake Orion, MI 16 aircraft registered in this town
  • Michigan 7,223 aircraft registered
Airworthiness

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N81DM.json.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N81DM, 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 Arcanum LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 9, 2026, expires September 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated September 18, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 27-0252 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N81DM was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mitsubishi MU-300 (serial 002SA, cancelled date not given). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N81DM. 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 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 28, 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 28, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data