Ray Kirk CHALLENGER II
N2170X is a Ray Kirk CHALLENGER II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1990. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Yulee, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 6, 1990 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 4, 1990.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Ray Kirk
- Model
- CHALLENGER II
- Serial number
- CH20489B0413
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Bombardier ROTAX (ALL)
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1990
- Transponder code
- A1D5F1 (octal 50352761)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 6, 1990
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · March 4, 1990
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00964821
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ray Kirk P
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 86115 Debbie Rd
Yulee, FL 32097
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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
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The public federal record on N2170X, 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 Ray Kirk P, an individual, certificate issued February 6, 1990, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated March 4, 1990, consistent with the 1990 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial CH20489B0413 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2170X was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 337 (serial 337-0070, cancelled November 15, 1972); Piper PA-28-161 (serial 287916346, cancelled date not given). 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 N2170X: Accident on November 21, 1985 at Washington Twp., IN: fatal, destroyed (2 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: Piper PA-28-161 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI86FA031 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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 August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data