Mooney M20C
N81XM 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 Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 13, 2016 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 21, 1964.
Where is it now Last seen October 9 at 6:16 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Mooney
- Model
- M20C · all M20Cs and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and aluminiumA 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
- 2727
- 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 O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1964
- Cruising speed
- 127 mph
- Transponder code
- AB091C (octal 52604434)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 13, 2016
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2023
- 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 · May 21, 1964
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00583110
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Noble Gary D
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 4709 S Arden Ave
Sioux Falls, SD 57103-5243
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N81XM links to the rest of the register
- Mooney M-20 6,247 registered
- Mooney 5,396 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-360 / VO-360 series 11,931 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Sioux Falls, SD 248 aircraft registered in this town
- Joe Foss Field · FSD
- South Dakota 2,276 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Mooney M-20 66 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Mooney M-20 627 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Mooney M-20 495 supplemental type certificates
- Where N81XM is now · Last seen October 9 at 6:16 pm.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N81XM.json.
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The public federal record on N81XM, 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 Noble Gary D, an individual, certificate issued October 13, 2016, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated May 21, 1964, consistent with the 1964 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2727 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N81XM 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 N81XM. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data