Alex M Bantum ECLIPSE 10
N158MB is an Alex M Bantum ECLIPSE 10, a rotorcraft with a four-stroke engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2020. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Waxhaw, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 26, 2026 and expires on May 31, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 19, 2020.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Alex M Bantum
- Model
- ECLIPSE 10
- Serial number
- 08175451014
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
- Power
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 914 SERIES · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2020
- Kit
- ELA AVIACION ECLIPSE 10
- Transponder code
- A0E8FC (octal 50164374)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 26, 2026
- Expires
- May 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2026
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 19, 2020
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01318239
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kropelin Barry R
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
- Address
- 1016 Meander Ln
Waxhaw, NC 28173-1119
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N158MB, 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 Kropelin Barry R, an individual, certificate issued May 26, 2026, expires May 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated October 19, 2020, consistent with the 2020 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 08175451014 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N158MB was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Kozelka JAVELIN (serial 222, cancelled April 25, 2013). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N158MB. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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