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Steve Lemke CHALLENGER II
N16SL is a Steve Lemke CHALLENGER II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine, built in 2021. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Birmingham, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 16, 2024 and expires on December 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated January 18, 2022.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Steve Lemke
- Model
- CHALLENGER II
- Serial number
- CH2-0292-B-0818
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Two-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 7 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 503 SERIES · 52 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2021
- Transponder code
- A0F0F0 (octal 50170360)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 16, 2024
- Expires
- December 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- December 16, 2024
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · January 18, 2022
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01277306
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Williams Phillip
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 2031 Grayson Valley Dr
Birmingham, AL 35235-1926
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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
Connections how N16SL links to the rest of the register
- Steve Lemke 1 aircraft on the register
- Rotax 503 series 449 aircraft with this engine series · 52 hp
- Birmingham, AL 216 aircraft registered in this town
- Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International · BHM
- Alabama 4,355 aircraft registered
- Report filed on this aircraft: Line, leaking · 1999-04-26
- Report filed on this aircraft: Switch, malfunction · 1996-11-29
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N16SL.json.
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N16SL, 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 Williams Phillip, an individual, certificate issued December 16, 2024, expires December 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated January 18, 2022, consistent with the 2021 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial CH2-0292-B-0818 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N16SL was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech E18S (serial BA-65, cancelled April 18, 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 N16SL. 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 November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 12, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data