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N8073C

Ballard M Eugene CHALLENGER II

N8073C is a Ballard M Eugene CHALLENGER II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine, built in 1998. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Cherryville, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 22, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 23, 2006.

Aircraft

Maker
Ballard M Eugene
Model
CHALLENGER II
Serial number
CH2-0298-CW-1709
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 503ULDCDI · 52 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1998
Kit
QUAD CITY ULTRALIGHT ACFT CORP CHALLENGER II
Transponder code
AAFEA2 (octal 52577242)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 22, 2025
Expires
July 31, 2032
Last FAA action
July 22, 2025
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · October 23, 2006
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00255239

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Peeler James K
Type
Individual
Address
2491 Highway 274
Cherryville, NC 28021-9629

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 2

1976-02-18Piper PA-34-200T · exported to South Africa · Valid registration
1955-03-17Piper PA-18A-135 · exported to Mexico · Valid registration

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data