Mooney Aircraft Corp. M20K
N9540V is a Mooney Aircraft Corp. M20K, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1980. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Capital Aviation LLC, an LLC in Bismarck, North Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 3, 2026 and expires on January 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 10, 1980. 1 document is on file: loan or lien (security agreement).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Mooney Aircraft Corp.
- Model
- M20K · all M20Ks and related versions
- Serial number
- 25-0487
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor TSIO-360 SER · 225 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1980
- Transponder code
- AD45EF (octal 53242757)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 3, 2026
- Expires
- January 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- January 3, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 10, 1980
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00514620
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Capital Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 2397
Bismarck, ND 58502-2397
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 1
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The public federal record on N9540V, 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 Capital Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 3, 2026, expires January 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 10, 1980, consistent with the 1980 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 25-0487 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9540V according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (September 29, 2026). The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N9540V. 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 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 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