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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Bura David CHALLENGER II
N1948R is a Bura David CHALLENGER II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine, built in 2007. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Hazard, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 7, 2023 and expires on October 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated May 16, 2007.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bura David
- Model
- CHALLENGER II
- Serial number
- CH2-1003-2391
- 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 503 DCDI · 52 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2007
- Transponder code
- A17A87 (octal 50275207)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 7, 2023
- Expires
- October 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 7, 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 · Registered before Jan 31, 2008FAA certificate purpose code 8A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 16, 2007
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00235389
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Williams Darian J
- 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
- 2037 Lotts Creek Rd
Hazard, KY 41701-7620
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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 N1948R links to the rest of the register
- Bura David 1 aircraft on the register
- Rotax 503 DCDI 561 aircraft with this engine series · 52 hp
- Hazard, KY 10 aircraft registered in this town
- Wendell H Ford Airport · CPF
- Kentucky 2,980 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N1948R.json.
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The public federal record on N1948R, 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 Williams Darian J, an individual, certificate issued October 7, 2023, expires October 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated May 16, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial CH2-1003-2391 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1948R was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Raven Vulcoon R S-50A (serial 154, cancelled March 26, 1975). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N1948R. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- 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