Schumacher Michael CHALLENGER II
N441MS is a Schumacher Michael CHALLENGER II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine, built in 2004. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Sidney, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 4, 2007 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated October 20, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schumacher Michael
- Model
- CHALLENGER II
- Serial number
- CH2-1200-CW-2039
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 503 DCDI · 52 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2004
- Transponder code
- A54F78 (octal 51247570)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 4, 2007
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · October 20, 2007
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00408199
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Schumacher Michael
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 551 County Road 2100 E
Sidney, IL 61877-9716
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 2
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N441MS, 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 Schumacher Michael, an individual, certificate issued October 4, 2007, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 20, 2007, 3 years after the 2004 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 CH2-1200-CW-2039 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N441MS was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 441 (serial 4410056, cancelled August 19, 1998); Cessna 441 (serial 4410059, cancelled July 21, 1988). 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]
2 NTSB records under N441MS: Accident on June 21, 2014 at St. Joesph, IL: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on January 2, 1997 at Lakeland, FL: minor injuries, destroyed. 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Schumacher CHALLENGER II · operated under 091
The total loss of engine power due to a lack of lubrication following the in-flight failure of the mechanical oil injection pump. Contributing to the accident was the temporary obscuration of the pilot's forward visibility due to sun glare during the forced landing, which resulted in a collision with power lines.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN14LA309 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 441 · operated under 091
Failure of the electronic engine control, which caused an overtorque condition in the right engine that made directional control of the airplane not possible by the pilot when the power to the left engine was retarded to idle during the takeoff roll.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA97LA056 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
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