Binns Wilfred E CHALLENGER II
N80231 is a Binns Wilfred E CHALLENGER II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine, built in 2002. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Las Cruces, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 9, 2007 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated December 15, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Binns Wilfred E
- Model
- CHALLENGER II
- Serial number
- CH 5 158
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Hirth 3203 · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2002
- Transponder code
- AAEC26 (octal 52566046)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 9, 2007
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · December 15, 2007
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00387499
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Binns Wilfred E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 535 Roadrunner Ln
Las Cruces, NM 88005-5034
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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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N80231, 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 Binns Wilfred E, an individual, certificate issued August 9, 2007, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 15, 2007, 5 years after the 2002 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial CH 5 158 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N80231 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech D18S (serial A-211, cancelled April 11, 1979). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N80231. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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
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