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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026U-Fly-It Light Sport Acft Llc CHALLENGER II
N111UF is an U-Fly-It Light Sport Acft Llc 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 Lafayette, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 22, 2023 and expires on November 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated January 23, 2015.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- U-Fly-It Light Sport Acft Llc
- Model
- CHALLENGER II · all CHALLENGER IIs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminium tube and fabricAn ultralight-style airframe: bolted aluminium tubing under sailcloth or fabric, the construction of weight-shift trikes and the lightest two-seaters. An ultralight-style airframe: bolted aluminium tubing under sailcloth. This is how the U-Fly-It Light Sport Acft Llc CHALLENGER II family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- CH2-2856
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Two-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 7 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 582DCDI · 65 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A031B2 (octal 50030662)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 22, 2023
- Expires
- November 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- November 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · January 23, 2015
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01064012
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Payne Joseph C
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 630 Wood Side Ln
Lafayette, TN 37083
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N111UF links to the rest of the register
- U-Fly-It Light Sport Acft Llc CHALLENGER II 7 registered
- U-Fly-It Light Sport Acft Llc 13 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Rotax 582DCDI 578 aircraft with this engine series · 65 hp
- Lafayette, TN 15 aircraft registered in this town
- Lafayette Municipal · 3M7
- Tennessee 6,535 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N111UF.json.
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The public federal record on N111UF, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Payne Joseph C, an individual, certificate issued November 22, 2023, expires November 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial CH2-2856 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N111UF was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 152 (serial 15283283, cancelled August 23, 1996). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
1 NTSB record under N111UF: Accident on January 13, 1996 at Spring, TX: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 152 · operated under 091
The pilot's improper flare, improper recovery from a bounced landing, and failure to maintain directional control during the landing. The soft terrain was a related factor.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data