Brown Benjamin C CHALLENGER II
N2480Y is a Brown Benjamin C CHALLENGER II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine, built in 1996. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 10, 2020 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated September 19, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Brown Benjamin C
- Model
- CHALLENGER II
- Serial number
- CH20394-4139
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 503 DCDI · 52 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1996
- Transponder code
- A25026 (octal 50450046)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 10, 2020
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 29, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · September 19, 2007
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00375899
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gray David M
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 51221
Albuquerque, NM 87181-1221
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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
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The public federal record on N2480Y, 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 Gray David M, an individual, certificate issued January 10, 2020, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 19, 2007, 11 years after the 1996 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial CH20394-4139 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2480Y was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172D (serial 17249780, cancelled December 10, 2001). 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 N2480Y: Accident on September 1, 2023 at Moultonborough, NH: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Brown Benjamin C CHALLENGER II · operated under 091
A loss of engine power due to a loss of compression in one of the engine’s two cylinders.
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
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, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data