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N260HP

Aviation Specialties Unlimited CHALLENGER III

N260HP is an Aviation Specialties Unlimited CHALLENGER III, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2010. It has 2 seats. It is registered to National Air And Space Museum Of The Smithsonian I, a government body in Washington, District of Columbia. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 19, 2021 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 27, 2010.

Aircraft

Maker
Aviation Specialties Unlimited
Model
CHALLENGER III
Serial number
0001
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming AEIO-540 SER · 260 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2010
Transponder code
A27FBA (octal 50477672)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 19, 2021
Expires
July 31, 2028
Last FAA action
May 26, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · April 27, 2010
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
01048119

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
National Air And Space Museum Of The Smithsonian I
Type
Government
Address
6Th And Independence Ave SW
Washington, DC 20013-7012

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

2007-10-22Aviation Specialities Unltd CHALLENGER II · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office
1996-02-05Aerotek PITTS S2S · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

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