{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1998-11-04","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-08-02","city":"NORFOLK","country_code":"US","county_code":"710","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"17019","engine_horsepower":225,"engine_maker":"CONT MOTOR","engine_model":"TSIO-360 SER","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2032-08-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-08-02","maker":"Mooney Aircraft Corp.","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"MOONEY AIRCRAFT CORP.","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"5870220","mode_s_code":"50343712","mode_s_hex":"A1C7CA","model":"M20K","n_number":"N21353","name":"ELM AVIATION LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"WOLFEBORO","damage":"DEST","date":"1989-08-31","highest_injury":"MINR","ntsb_no":"NYC89LA208","probable_cause":"INADEQUATE COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS BY THE OWNER/PILOT-IN-COMMAND (PIC), HIS FAILUE TO MAINTAIN PROPER ALTITUDE ON THE APPROACH, AND FAILURE OF THE OTHER PILOT (OWNER'S INSTRUCTOR PILOT) TO TAKE REMEDIAL ACTION. FACTORS RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WERE: THE ADVERSE WIND CONDITIONS AND TREES NEAR THE APPROACH END OF THE RUNWAY.","registration":"N21353","state":"NH","summary":"Accident on August 31, 1989 at Wolfeboro, NH: minor injuries, destroyed.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N21353 is a Mooney Aircraft Corp. M20K, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1998. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Elm Aviation LLC, an LLC in Norfolk, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 2, 2025 and expires on August 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 4, 1998.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Elm Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 2, 2025, expires August 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated November 4, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 25-2032 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N21353 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-32RT-300T (serial 32R7887201, cancelled October 23, 1992); Aeronca K (serial K-339, cancelled December 23, 1971). 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 N21353: Accident on August 31, 1989 at Wolfeboro, NH: minor injuries, destroyed. 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":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":4,"serial_number":"25-2032","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"VA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 11426","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00823876","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N21353","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1998,"zip":"235170426"}