Mooney M20M
N9156Z is a Mooney M20M, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1992. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Omaha, Nebraska. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 11, 2012 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 6, 1992.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Mooney
- Model
- M20M · all M20Ms and related versions
- Serial number
- 27-0142
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming TI0-540 SER · 310 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1992
- Transponder code
- ACAC80 (octal 53126200)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 11, 2012
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 6, 1992
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00764082
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Edney James A MD
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
- Address
- 12930 Burt St
Omaha, NE 68154-4020
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.
Earlier use of this number 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N9156Z, 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 Edney James A MD, an individual, certificate issued April 11, 2012, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated October 6, 1992, consistent with the 1992 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 27-0142 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9156Z was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-161 (serial 2841032, cancelled January 10, 1989); North American B-25N (serial 44-30386, cancelled October 29, 1974). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]
1 NTSB record under N9156Z: Accident on August 7, 2021 at Victoria, MN: fatal, destroyed (3 fatal). Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Mooney M20M · operated under 091
The pilot’s loss of airplane control due to spatial disorientation during final approach, which led to a spiral dive that overstressed the airplane and resulted in an in-flight breakup.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data