{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1990-04-27","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2008-03-03","city":"LAS VEGAS","country_code":"US","county_code":"003","cruise_speed_mph":126,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41511","engine_horsepower":200,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"I0360 SER A&C","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-10-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-09-09","maker":"Mooney","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"MOONEY","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"5870219","mode_s_code":"50021122","mode_s_hex":"A02252","model":"M20J","n_number":"N1079K","name":"SMITH PLANE LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Lund","damage":"SUBS","date":"2013-09-15","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"WPR13LA407","probable_cause":"The pilot\u2019s failure to monitor the environment, which led to a collision with power lines during climbout. Contributing to the accident was the loss of engine power during low-altitude flight for reasons that could not be determined because postaccident examination of the airframe and engine did not reveal any mechanical malfunctions or failures that would have precluded normal operation, which led to a forced landing that the pilot subsequently aborted when the engine regained full power.","registration":"N1079K","state":"NV","summary":"Accident on September 15, 2013 at Lund, NV: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N1079K is a Mooney M20J, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1990. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Smith Plane LLC, an LLC in Las Vegas, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 3, 2008 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 27, 1990.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Smith Plane LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 3, 2008, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated April 27, 1990, consistent with the 1990 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 24-3159 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N1079K was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Luscombe 8A (serial 3806, cancelled April 25, 1960). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N1079K: Accident on September 15, 2013 at Lund, NV: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Western-Pacific","region_code":"4","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":4,"serial_number":"24-3159","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NV","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"6145 WITTIG AVE","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00744971","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N1079K","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1990,"zip":"891313013"}