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N729BJ

Jessen Bruce W CHALLENGER II

Valid Wisconsin

N729BJ is a Jessen Bruce W CHALLENGER II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1999. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in South Range, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 19, 2004 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 23, 2000.

Aircraft

Maker
Jessen Bruce W
Model
CHALLENGER II
Serial number
CH2-0699-1882
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Bombardier ROTAX (ALL)
Seats
2
Year built
1999
Kit
QUAD CITY ULTRALIGHT ACFT CORP CHALLENGER II
Transponder code
A9C51D (octal 52342435)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
November 19, 2004
Expires
October 31, 2028
Last FAA action
June 16, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · May 23, 2000
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00815610

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Jessen Bruce W
Type
Co-owned
Address
PO Box 38
South Range, WI 54874-0038
Co-owners
Baldwin Gail

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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 · 5 clear

The public federal record on N729BJ, 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 Jessen Bruce W, a co-owned, certificate issued November 19, 2004, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated May 23, 2000, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial CH2-0699-1882 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N729BJ according to the deregistered file. [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 N729BJ. 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

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

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 October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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