Ballard M Eugene CHALLENGER II
N8073C is a Ballard M Eugene CHALLENGER II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine, built in 1998. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Cherryville, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 22, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 23, 2006.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Ballard M Eugene
- Model
- CHALLENGER II
- Serial number
- CH2-0298-CW-1709
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 503ULDCDI · 52 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1998
- Kit
- QUAD CITY ULTRALIGHT ACFT CORP CHALLENGER II
- Transponder code
- AAFEA2 (octal 52577242)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 22, 2025
- Expires
- July 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- July 22, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · October 23, 2006
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00255239
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Peeler James K
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2491 Highway 274
Cherryville, NC 28021-9629
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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 2
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The public federal record on N8073C, 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 Peeler James K, an individual, certificate issued July 22, 2025, expires July 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 23, 2006, 8 years after the 1998 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 CH2-0298-CW-1709 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8073C was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-34-200T (serial 34-7670113, cancelled February 18, 1976); Piper PA-18A-135 (serial 18-3473, cancelled March 17, 1955). 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 N8073C. 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