{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1962-02-08","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"1994-12-09","city":"LAGUNA NIGUEL","country_code":"US","county_code":"059","cruise_speed_mph":127,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41514","engine_horsepower":180,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"O&VO-360 SER","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-04-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-07-28","maker":"Mooney","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"MOONEY","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"5870208","mode_s_code":"52532601","mode_s_hex":"AAB581","model":"M20C","n_number":"N78983","name":"RICHARD KROLL A LAW CORP","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N78983 is a Mooney M20C, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1962. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Richard Kroll A Law CORP, a corporation in Laguna Niguel, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 9, 1994 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated February 8, 1962.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Richard Kroll A Law CORP, a corporation, certificate issued December 9, 1994, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate, dated February 8, 1962, consistent with the 1962 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2017 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N78983 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N78983. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":4,"serial_number":"2017","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"24122 LA HERMOSA","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00685070","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N78983","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1962,"zip":"92677"}