Stephen Aberle CHIPPER CH-2A
N618SA is a Stephen Aberle CHIPPER CH-2A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2024. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Kiowa, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 17, 2022 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 30, 2024.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Stephen Aberle
- Model
- CHIPPER CH-2A
- Serial number
- 019
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Aeromoment AM13 SERIES · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2024
- Kit
- CHIPPER AEROSPACE LLC CHIPPER CH-2A
- Transponder code
- A80E07 (octal 52007007)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 17, 2022
- Expires
- February 28, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · May 30, 2024
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 01320399
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Farney Brandon T
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 19428 SE Riverview Rd
Kiowa, KS 67070-8514
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N618SA, 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 Farney Brandon T, an individual, certificate issued February 17, 2022, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated May 30, 2024, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 019 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N618SA 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]
1 NTSB record under N618SA: Accident on June 21, 2026 at Alva, OK: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Stephen Aberle CHIPPER CH-2A · operated under 091
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- 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