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N9159C

Mooney M20M

Valid Colorado

N9159C is a Mooney M20M, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1996. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Longmont, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 2, 2023 and expires on June 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 9, 1996.

Aircraft

Maker
Mooney
Model
M20M · all M20Ms and related versions
Serial number
27-0223
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming TI0-540 SER · 310 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1996
Transponder code
ACACD4 (octal 53126324)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 2, 2023
Expires
June 30, 2030
Last FAA action
January 19, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · December 9, 1996
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00246331

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Conlon James E III
Type
Individual
Address
475 Timm Way Apt E212
Longmont, CO 80504-2172

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

1988-09-16Cessna R182 · N-number assigned but not yet registered
1954-12-08Cessna 180 · exported to New Zealand · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N9159C, 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 Conlon James E III, an individual, certificate issued June 2, 2023, expires June 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated December 9, 1996, consistent with the 1996 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 27-0223 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N9159C was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna R182 (serial R18200431, cancelled September 16, 1988); Cessna 180 (serial 31258, cancelled December 8, 1954). 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N9159C: Accident on March 3, 1984 at Boston, MA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

NYC84LA303Accident on March 3, 1984 at Boston, MA: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: R18200431

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna R182 · operated under 091

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

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 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