Thomas Robert G CHRISTEN EAGLE II
N80VB is a Thomas Robert G CHRISTEN EAGLE II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1992. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Plainfield, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 11, 2006 and expires on June 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 23, 1992.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Thomas Robert G
- Model
- CHRISTEN EAGLE II
- Serial number
- THOMAS-0001
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER A&C · 200 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1992
- Transponder code
- AAE161 (octal 52560541)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 11, 2006
- Expires
- June 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 11, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · September 23, 1992
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00543020
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Vanderbeek Robert K
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 8126 Old Ridge Rd
Plainfield, IL 60544-9138
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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 N80VB, 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 Vanderbeek Robert K, an individual, certificate issued January 11, 2006, expires June 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 23, 1992, consistent with the 1992 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial THOMAS-0001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N80VB was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Vander Beek Robert CHRISTEN EAGLE II (serial VANDER BEEK-001, cancelled February 27, 2013). 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 N80VB: Accident on June 15, 2001 at Plainfield, IL: serious injuries, destroyed. 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: Vanderbeek Christen Eagle II · operated under 091
the improper in-flight planning/decision and the aircraft control not maintained by the pilot. The thunderstorm outflow was a contributing factor.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI01FA165 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
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