Van Hulle James HORIZON I
N816DJ is a Van Hulle James HORIZON I, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2000. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Granger, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 8, 1999 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated November 16, 2000.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Van Hulle James
- Model
- HORIZON I
- Serial number
- H091
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C65 SERIES · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2000
- Kit
- AERO VISIONS INTL HORIZON I
- Transponder code
- AB1FFA (octal 52617772)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 8, 1999
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · November 16, 2000
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00773807
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Van Hulle James
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 12069 Cheyenne Ct
Granger, IN 46530-6748
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N816DJ, 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 Van Hulle James, an individual, certificate issued July 8, 1999, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated November 16, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial H091 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N816DJ according to the deregistered file. [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 N816DJ: Accident on June 19, 2002 at Niles, MI: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Hulle Horizon 1 · operated under 091
The pilot's improper recovery from a bounced landing. A factor was the pilot's lack of experience in tailwheel airplanes.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI02LA171 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