Butcher J L/Butcher H L EUROPA XS
N241BW is a Butcher J L/Butcher H L EUROPA XS, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2005. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 20, 2005 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 18, 2005.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Butcher J L/Butcher H L
- Model
- EUROPA XS
- Serial number
- A185
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2005
- Kit
- EUROPA AVIATION INC EUROPA XS
- Transponder code
- A233E4 (octal 50431744)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 20, 2005
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · August 18, 2005
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00180839
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Butcher James L Trustee
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 3146 N 5Th St
Kalamazoo, MI 49009-8511 - Co-owners
- Butcher Heather L Trustee
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N241BW, 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 Butcher James L Trustee, a co-owned, certificate issued June 20, 2005, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated August 18, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial A185 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N241BW 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 N241BW. 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 August 27, 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