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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 12, 2026Jones Brian K CHALLENGER II
N1731C is a Jones Brian K CHALLENGER II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine, built in 2010. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Ottoville, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 21, 2026 and expires on February 28, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 28, 2010.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Jones Brian K
- Model
- CHALLENGER II
- Serial number
- CH2-0103-2293
- 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
- 2010
- Transponder code
- A126D0 (octal 50223320)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 21, 2026
- Expires
- February 28, 2033
- Last FAA action
- February 21, 2026
- 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 · September 28, 2010
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01057393
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Eickholt Alex C
- 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
- PO Box 238
Ottoville, OH 45876-0238
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N1731C links to the rest of the register
- Jones Brian K 1 aircraft on the register
- Rotax 503 series 449 aircraft with this engine series · 52 hp
- Ottoville, OH 2 aircraft registered in this town
- Ohio 8,531 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N1731C, 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 Eickholt Alex C, an individual, certificate issued February 21, 2026, expires February 28, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 28, 2010, consistent with the 2010 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial CH2-0103-2293 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1731C according to the deregistered file. [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 N1731C. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
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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