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N81038

Byrd Melvin Gene CHALLENGER II

N81038 is a Byrd Melvin Gene CHALLENGER II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Kinston, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 8, 2025 and expires on May 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 17, 1989.

Aircraft

Maker
Byrd Melvin Gene
Model
CHALLENGER II
Serial number
CH20788CW0344
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Bombardier ROTAX (ALL)
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
AB0C3E (octal 52606076)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 8, 2025
Expires
May 31, 2032
Last FAA action
May 8, 2025
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · March 17, 1989
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00824431

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Long Robert D
Type
Individual
Address
523 Tyree Rd
Kinston, NC 28504-5369

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

1960-06-13Cessna 140 · Valid registration

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