Van Laak James E TALON XP
N582JJ is a Van Laak James E TALON XP, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Joshua Tree, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 22, 2020 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 18, 2002.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Van Laak James E
- Model
- TALON XP
- Serial number
- VJ1
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Kit
- SPORT FLIGHT AVIATION INC TALON XP
- Transponder code
- A77E27 (octal 51677047)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 22, 2020
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · July 18, 2002
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00893635
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Whelchel Neil E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 2082
Joshua Tree, CA 92252-0862
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N582JJ, 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 Whelchel Neil E, an individual, certificate issued April 22, 2020, expires April 30, 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 VJ1 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N582JJ 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 N582JJ. 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