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N5025V

Bush Bryan CHALLENGER II

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesIowa

N5025V is a Bush Bryan CHALLENGER II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine, built in 2008. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Cleghorn, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 6, 2006 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated February 13, 2008.

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Aircraft

Maker
Bush Bryan
Model
CHALLENGER II
Serial number
1-2564
Type
Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Power
Two-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 7 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 503UL · 52 hp
Fuel
100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
Seats
2
Year built
2008
Kit
QUAD CITY ULTRALIGHT ACFT CORP CHALLENGER II
Transponder code
A64479 (octal 51442171)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
April 6, 2006
Expires
January 31, 2030
Last FAA action
September 29, 2023
Airworthiness
ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · February 13, 2008
FAA region
CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00200729

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Bush Bryan P
Type
IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
5555 H Ave
Cleghorn, IA 51014-7019

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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

2002-12-19Bell UH-1E · exported to New Zealand · Sale reported
—Boeing E75 · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Connections how N5025V links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
  • Rotax 503UL 24 aircraft with this engine series · 52 hp
Place
  • Cleghorn, IA 2 aircraft registered in this town
  • Iowa 4,513 aircraft registered

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Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N5025V, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Bush Bryan P, an individual, certificate issued April 6, 2006, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated February 13, 2008, consistent with the 2008 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1-2564 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N5025V was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Bell UH-1E (serial 155350, cancelled December 19, 2002); Boeing E75 (serial 755132, cancelled date not given). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N5025V. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

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CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 12, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data