Benson James E CH II
N9157T is a Benson James E CH II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2003. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Dakota Ultrasport LLC, an LLC in Larimore, North Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 18, 2019 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 22, 2003.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Benson James E
- Model
- CH II
- Serial number
- CH2-0301-2058
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Rotax SEE BOMBADIER
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2003
- Kit
- QUAD CITY ULTRALIGHT ACFT CORP CHALLENGER II
- Transponder code
- ACAC9D (octal 53126235)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 18, 2019
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · July 22, 2003
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00413847
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dakota Ultrasport LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 88
Larimore, ND 58251-0088
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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 3
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N9157T, 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 Dakota Ultrasport LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 18, 2019, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 22, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial CH2-0301-2058 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9157T was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Mooney M20R (serial 290055, cancelled September 5, 1995); Piper PA-28-161 (serial 288516096, cancelled January 11, 1989); Cessna 180 (serial 50657, cancelled June 29, 1970). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N9157T. 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 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