Van Wychen James CHALLENGER II
N91269 is a Van Wychen James CHALLENGER II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1989. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Warrens, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 29, 1987 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 14, 1991.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Van Wychen James
- Model
- CHALLENGER II
- Serial number
- CH20187WD225
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Bombardier ROTAX (ALL)
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1989
- Transponder code
- ACA165 (octal 53120545)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 29, 1987
- Expires
- June 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 19, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · June 14, 1991
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00713911
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Vanwychen James G
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3365 Auger Rd
Warrens, WI 54666-7517
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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 N91269, 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 Vanwychen James G, an individual, certificate issued September 29, 1987, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated June 14, 1991, consistent with the 1989 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial CH20187WD225 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N91269 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 N91269: Accident on October 22, 1989 at Warrens, WI: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Wychen CHALLENGER II · operated under 091
A BROKEN CRANSKSHAFT WHICH RESULTED IN THE LOSS OF POWER. A FACTOR RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WAS: THE LACK OF SUITABLE TERRAIN FOR A FORCED LANDING.
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- 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