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N4459A

Smith John N CHALLENGER II

Valid Illinois

N4459A is a Smith John N CHALLENGER II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine, built in 2006. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Winnebago, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 7, 2022 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 16, 2006.

Aircraft

Maker
Smith John N
Model
CHALLENGER II
Serial number
2567
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 503 SERIES · 52 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2006
Kit
QUAD CITY ULTRALIGHT ACFT CORP CHALLENGER II
Transponder code
A560C4 (octal 51260304)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 7, 2022
Expires
March 31, 2029
Last FAA action
July 21, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · September 16, 2006
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00183839

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Smith William A
Type
Individual
Address
4805 Kendall Rd
Winnebago, IL 61088-9111

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

2001-11-02Piper PA-22-150 · 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