Leither Ernest L CHALLENGER II
N969EL is a Leither Ernest L CHALLENGER II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2009. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Graettinger, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 31, 2019 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated December 24, 2009.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Leither Ernest L
- Model
- CHALLENGER II
- Serial number
- CH2-0307-2787
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Rotax 503 DCDI · 52 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2009
- Kit
- QUAD CITY ULTRALIGHT ACFT CORP CHALLENGER II
- Transponder code
- AD7E04 (octal 53277004)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 31, 2019
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · December 24, 2009
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 01015528
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Westergard Stanton R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3690 270Th St
Graettinger, IA 51342-7506
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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 N969EL, 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 Westergard Stanton R, an individual, certificate issued January 31, 2019, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated December 24, 2009, consistent with the 2009 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial CH2-0307-2787 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N969EL 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 N969EL. 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