Lewis Bobby J CHALLENGER II
N897BL is a Lewis Bobby J CHALLENGER II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1998. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Riceville, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 17, 2013 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 4, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Lewis Bobby J
- Model
- CHALLENGER II
- Serial number
- CH2-0197-CW-1557
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Bombardier ROTAX (ALL)
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- AC5F79 (octal 53057571)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 17, 2013
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · June 4, 1998
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00606671
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Baumgardner Erbin C
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 276 County Road 67
Riceville, TN 37370-5630
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N897BL, 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 Baumgardner Erbin C, an individual, certificate issued July 17, 2013, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated June 4, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial CH2-0197-CW-1557 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N897BL 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N897BL. 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 September 30, 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