Miner Lloyd A CHALLENGER II
N1974L is a Miner Lloyd A CHALLENGER II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2006. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Montello, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 6, 2023 and expires on December 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated November 21, 2019.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Miner Lloyd A
- Model
- CHALLENGER II
- Serial number
- CH2-1005-CW-2690
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 503 DCDI · 52 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2006
- Kit
- QUAD CITY AIRCRAFT CORP CHALLENGER
- Transponder code
- A1851B (octal 50302433)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 6, 2023
- Expires
- December 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- December 6, 2023
- 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 · November 21, 2019
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01304666
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Laplante Bryan D
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
- Address
- W6205 South St
Montello, WI 53949-7895
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N1974L, 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 Laplante Bryan D, an individual, certificate issued December 6, 2023, expires December 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 21, 2019, 13 years after the 2006 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial CH2-1005-CW-2690 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1974L was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Lanier James A TALON XP (serial 143, cancelled June 26, 2009). 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]
1 NTSB record under N1974L: Accident on July 2, 2008 at Cleveland, GA: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Lanier James A Talon XP · operated under 091
An inadvertent stall during the initial climb.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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