{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2020-09-25","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-05-01","city":"LAFAYETTE","country_code":"US","county_code":"055","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"17042","engine_horsepower":300,"engine_maker":"CONT MOTOR","engine_model":"IO-550 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2032-05-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-05-30","maker":"Mooney International Corp","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"MOONEY INTERNATIONAL CORP","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"5870232","mode_s_code":"50301162","mode_s_hex":"A18272","model":"M20U","n_number":"N197CV","name":"JOSEPH F GAAR JR PROFESSIONAL LAW CORP","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Oshkosh","damage":"MINR","date":"2019-07-21","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"CEN19IA234","probable_cause":"The failure of both pilots to remain clear of the other while flying in formation.","registration":"N197CV","state":"WI","summary":"Incident on July 21, 2019 at Oshkosh, WI: no injuries, minor damage.","type":"INC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N197CV is a Mooney International Corp M20U, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2016. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Joseph F Gaar JR Professional Law CORP, a corporation in Lafayette, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 1, 2025 and expires on May 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 25, 2020.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Joseph F Gaar JR Professional Law CORP, a corporation, certificate issued May 1, 2025, expires May 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 25, 2020, 4 years after the 2016 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 32-0001 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N197CV according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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 N197CV: Incident on July 21, 2019 at Oshkosh, WI: no injuries, minor 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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":4,"serial_number":"32-0001","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"LA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"201 PHILLIP AVE","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"01187249","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N197CV","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2016,"zip":"705033327"}