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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Macklin Dennis E CHALLENGER II
N222CH is a Macklin Dennis E CHALLENGER II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Gnd Efeckt LLP, a partnership in Cairo, Nebraska. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 3, 2025 and expires on October 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated November 28, 2007.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Macklin Dennis E
- Model
- CHALLENGER II
- Serial number
- CH2-0701-2118
- 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
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A1E8A9 (octal 50364251)
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 3, 2025
- Expires
- October 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- October 3, 2025
- 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 · November 28, 2007
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00424309
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gnd Efeckt LLP
- Type
- PartnershipFAA type of owner code 2 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 17280 W Abbott Rd
Cairo, NE 68824-9568
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N222CH links to the rest of the register
- Macklin Dennis E 1 aircraft on the register
- Rotax 503 DCDI 561 aircraft with this engine series · 52 hp
- Gnd Efeckt LLP 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Cairo, NE 10 aircraft registered in this town
- Nebraska 2,950 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N222CH, 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 Gnd Efeckt LLP, a partnership, certificate issued October 3, 2025, expires October 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial CH2-0701-2118 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N222CH 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 N222CH: Accident on April 16, 1996 at Lakeland, FL: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Hawker Siddeley FB-60 · operated under 091
The pilot's improper use of brakes and ailerons, during the landing rollout with a right crosswind, which resulted in a loss of directional control and subsequent nose over. Factors relating to the accident were: the crosswind and the pilot's lack of experience in the Hawker FB-60 airplane.
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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data