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N142KJ

Ems Kenneth R CHALLENGER II

N142KJ is an Ems Kenneth R CHALLENGER II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine, built in 2008. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Biloxi, Mississippi. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 30, 2008 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 4, 2008.

Aircraft

Maker
Ems Kenneth R
Model
CHALLENGER II
Serial number
2702
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 503 DCDI · 52 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2008
Kit
QUAD CITY ULTRALIGHT ACFT CORP CHALLENGER II
Transponder code
A0AB08 (octal 50125410)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 30, 2008
Expires
September 30, 2029
Last FAA action
September 2, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · June 4, 2008
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00461729

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Ems Kenneth R
Type
Individual
Address
14198 Old Hwy 67
Biloxi, MS 39532

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N142KJ, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Ems Kenneth R, an individual, certificate issued January 30, 2008, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated June 4, 2008, consistent with the 2008 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2702 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N142KJ according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N142KJ. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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