Van Wagoner William L CHALLENGER 2
N6055N is a Van Wagoner William L CHALLENGER 2, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1999. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Nashville, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 6, 2023 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for to show compliance with regulations; amateur built, dated July 29, 1999.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Van Wagoner William L
- Model
- CHALLENGER 2
- Serial number
- CH2-0597-B-1612
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Bombardier ROTAX (ALL)
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1999
- Transponder code
- A7DCE6 (octal 51756346)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 6, 2023
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · To show compliance with regulations; Amateur built · July 29, 1999
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00097021
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ohler Ron
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 311 N State St
Nashville, MI 49073-9203
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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 1
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The public federal record on N6055N, 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 Ohler Ron, an individual, certificate issued January 6, 2023, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for to show compliance with regulations; amateur built, dated July 29, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial CH2-0597-B-1612 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N6055N was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech 19A (serial MB379, cancelled April 22, 1994). 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]
1 NTSB record under N6055N: Accident on August 16, 1992 at Park Rapids, MN: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beech 19A · operated under 091
A HARD LANDING DUE TO EXCESSIVE DESCENT RATE.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI92LA244 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data