Chris D Esselstyn HP-18J
N196Y is a Chris D Esselstyn HP-18J, a glider with turbojet engines, built in 2015. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Waukesha, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 12, 2015 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 5, 2015.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Chris D Esselstyn
- Model
- HP-18J
- Serial number
- 004
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- Turbojet, 2 motors
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2015
- Transponder code
- A1809B (octal 50300233)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 12, 2015
- Expires
- March 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · August 5, 2015
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01173473
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Esselstyn Chris D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- N2 W 27481 Arrowhead Trails
Waukesha, WI 53188
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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 N196Y, 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 Esselstyn Chris D, an individual, certificate issued March 12, 2015, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated August 5, 2015, consistent with the 2015 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 004 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N196Y 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 N196Y. 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