Tharp S Richard CHALLENGER II
N128RT is a Tharp S Richard CHALLENGER II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2002. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Rock Falls, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 14, 2025 and expires on March 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 27, 2003.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Tharp S Richard
- Model
- CHALLENGER II
- Serial number
- CH2-0802-2250
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Rotax SEE BOMBADIER
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2002
- Kit
- QUAD CITY ULTRALIGHT ACFT CORP CHALLENGER II
- Transponder code
- A072F3 (octal 50071363)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 14, 2025
- Expires
- March 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- June 25, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · August 27, 2003
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00049059
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Royce Wesley W
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 234 Avenue D
Rock Falls, IL 61071-1371
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N128RT, 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 Royce Wesley W, an individual, certificate issued March 14, 2025, expires March 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated August 27, 2003, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial CH2-0802-2250 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N128RT according to the deregistered file. [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 N128RT: Accident on February 11, 2006 at Apopka, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Tharp S Richard Challenger II · operated under 091
The pilot's inadequate selection of a landing area which resulted in one of the seaplane's floats impacting a submerged stump.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data