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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Dion CHEROKEE II
N1864 is a Dion CHEROKEE II, a glider with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Whittier, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 11, 2025 and expires on February 29, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 16, 1977.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Dion
- Model
- CHEROKEE II
- Serial number
- 1
- Type
- GliderFAA type of aircraft code 1 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- NoneFAA type of engine code 0 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 60 mph
- Transponder code
- A159DA (octal 50254732)
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 11, 2025
- Expires
- February 29, 2032
- Last FAA action
- February 11, 2025
- 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 · August 16, 1977
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00822710
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Boelman Scott Z
- 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
- 14702 Nanry St
Whittier, CA 90604-1850
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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 2
Connections how N1864 links to the rest of the register
- Dion 1 aircraft on the register
- Whittier, CA 28 aircraft registered in this town
- California 27,686 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N1864.json.
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The public federal record on N1864, 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 Boelman Scott Z, an individual, certificate issued February 11, 2025, expires February 29, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1864 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna T207A (serial 20700526, cancelled September 12, 2001); A V Roe & Co Ltd AVRO BIPLANE (serial UNKNOWN, cancelled April 30, 1930). 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]
2 NTSB records under N1864: Accident on December 24, 1999 at Bethel, AK: minor injuries, substantial damage. Incident on December 23, 1998 at Kotzebue, AK: no injuries, minor damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna T207A · operated under 135
The pilot's failure to remove frost from the airplane prior to flight, and an inadvertent stall/mush.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 207 · operated under 135
The pilot's selection of the wrong taxi route. A factor associated with this incident was the absence of taxiway lighting or marking.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data