Boyd Douglas J CHALLENGER II
N7779P is a Boyd Douglas J CHALLENGER II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2003. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Rushmore, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 27, 2026 and expires on February 28, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 27, 2003.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Boyd Douglas J
- Model
- CHALLENGER II
- Serial number
- DJB 101
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Rotax SEE BOMBADIER
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2003
- Kit
- QUAD CITY ULTRALIGHT ACFT CORP CHALLENGER II
- Transponder code
- AA86A9 (octal 52503251)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 27, 2026
- Expires
- February 28, 2033
- Last FAA action
- February 27, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · March 27, 2003
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00028109
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Henning Adam L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 21316 300Th St
Rushmore, MN 56168-5043
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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 N7779P, 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 Henning Adam L, an individual, certificate issued February 27, 2026, expires February 28, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated March 27, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial DJB 101 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N7779P was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-24-250 (serial 242996, cancelled December 8, 1993). 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 N7779P: Accident on June 26, 1993 at Elwell, MI: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-24-250 · operated under 091
IMPROPER USE OF THE FUEL SELECTOR BY THE PILOT, WHICH RESULTED IN FUEL STARVATION.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI93FA225 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