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N3281G

Bitzer CHALLENGER

Valid Minnesota

N3281G is a Bitzer CHALLENGER, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1995. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Cologne, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 6, 1995 and expires on February 28, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 2, 1995.

Aircraft

Maker
Bitzer
Model
CHALLENGER
Serial number
0289
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Bombardier ROTAX (ALL)
Seats
2
Year built
1995
Transponder code
A38E8A (octal 50707212)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 6, 1995
Expires
February 28, 2027
Last FAA action
August 19, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · August 2, 1995
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00275332

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Bitzer John B
Type
Individual
Address
9780 County Road 140
Cologne, MN 55322

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 1

—North American T-28A · Valid registration

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