Kurrle James E CHALLENGER II
N387GK is a Kurrle James E CHALLENGER II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Sherrard, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 25, 2020 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 16, 2009.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Kurrle James E
- Model
- CHALLENGER II
- Serial number
- CH2-1007-LSS-LW-0138
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 503 SERIES · 52 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Kit
- QUAD CITY ULTRALIGHT ACFT CORP CHALLENGER I
- Transponder code
- A475EB (octal 51072753)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 25, 2020
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · September 16, 2009
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01037729
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gillihan Michael S
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2683 171St Ave
Sherrard, IL 61281-8567
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N387GK, 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 Gillihan Michael S, an individual, certificate issued February 25, 2020, expires February 28, 2030. 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 CH2-1007-LSS-LW-0138 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N387GK 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 N387GK. 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