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N797X

Will P Boyea CHALLENGER II

Valid Michigan

N797X is a Will P Boyea CHALLENGER II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2015. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Millersburg, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 21, 2023 and expires on December 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 17, 2016.

Aircraft

Maker
Will P Boyea
Model
CHALLENGER II
Serial number
CH2-0302-2206
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Rotax 582UL · 65 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2015
Transponder code
AAD413 (octal 52552023)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
December 21, 2023
Expires
December 31, 2030
Last FAA action
December 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · June 17, 2016
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00009739

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Schuler Robert F
Type
Individual
Address
PO Box 80
Millersburg, MI 49759-0080

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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

2006-07-06Elliott William B RAF 2000 · exported to Argentina · Valid registration

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The public federal record on N797X, 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 Schuler Robert F, an individual, certificate issued December 21, 2023, expires December 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated June 17, 2016, consistent with the 2015 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial CH2-0302-2206 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N797X was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Elliott William B RAF 2000 (serial H2-97-8-302, cancelled July 6, 2006). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N797X: Accident on December 16, 1998 at Walla Walla, WA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

SEA99LA021Accident on December 16, 1998 at Walla Walla, WA: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: H2-97-8-302

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Elliott RAF 2000 · operated under 091

The pilot's failure to maintain directional control after landing.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA99LA021 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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