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N9157J

Mooney M20M

Valid Minnesota

N9157J 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 Akn INC, a corporation in Crystal, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 7, 2011 and expires on January 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 31, 1992.

Aircraft

Maker
Mooney
Model
M20M · all M20Ms and related versions
Serial number
27-0131
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming TI0-540 SER · 310 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1992
Transponder code
ACAC94 (octal 53126224)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 7, 2011
Expires
January 31, 2027
Last FAA action
January 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · March 31, 1992
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00323862

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Akn INC
Type
Corporation
Address
6000 Douglas Dr N
Crystal, MN 55429-2314

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

1989-02-28Piper PA-28-161 · Valid, assigned to the manufacturer under its dealer certificate
1970-07-01Piper PA-28-180 · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N9157J, 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 Akn INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 7, 2011, expires January 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated March 31, 1992, consistent with the 1992 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 27-0131 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N9157J was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-161 (serial 2841033, cancelled February 28, 1989); Piper PA-28-180 (serial 283214, cancelled July 1, 1970). 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 N9157J. 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 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data