Klemp Gregory J CHALLENGER II
N12911 is a Klemp Gregory J CHALLENGER II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2009. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Posen, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 21, 2025 and expires on October 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 5, 2010.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Klemp Gregory J
- Model
- CHALLENGER II
- Serial number
- CH2-1296-1544
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Rotax 582DCDI · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2009
- Kit
- QUAD CITY ULTRALIGHT ACFT CORP CHALLENGER II
- Transponder code
- A077B6 (octal 50073666)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 21, 2025
- Expires
- October 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- October 21, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · March 5, 2010
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01038849
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Pekrul Keith R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1595 E Wilk Hwy
Posen, MI 49776-9423
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N12911, 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 Pekrul Keith R, an individual, certificate issued October 21, 2025, expires October 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated March 5, 2010, consistent with the 2009 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial CH2-1296-1544 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N12911 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172M (serial 17262364, cancelled October 31, 1973). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
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. [3]
1 NTSB record under N12911: Accident on June 30, 2011 at Neshkoro, WI: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Klemp Gregory J CHALLENGER II · operated under 091
The total loss of engine power during the initial climb due to a cold seizure as a result of a broken fan V-belt. Contributing to the accident was the passenger's interference with the flight controls during the forced landing.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 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