William F Oehl Jr VANS RV-14
N852BJ is a William F Oehl Jr VANS RV-14, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Sealy, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 26, 2026 and expires on July 31, 2033. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- William F Oehl Jr
- Model
- VANS RV-14
- Serial number
- 140531
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-14
- Transponder code
- ABAEE8 (octal 52727350)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 26, 2026
- Expires
- July 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- July 26, 2026
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01556557
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Oehl William F JR
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 7741 Meteor Dr
Sealy, TX 77474-2383 - Co-owners
- Oehl Judy Lynn
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N852BJ, 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 Oehl William F JR, a co-owned, certificate issued July 26, 2026, expires July 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 140531 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N852BJ was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: William F Oehl Jr VANS RV-14 (serial 140856, cancelled March 25, 2026). 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 N852BJ: Accident on June 17, 2025 at Sealy, TX: no injuries, substantial damage. 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: Vans Aircraft Company RV-14 · operated under 091
The pilot’s improper use of airplane’s wheel brakes during the landing roll-out.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN25LA209 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