Quad City Ultralight CHALLENGER II
N2493G is a Quad City Ultralight CHALLENGER II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine, built in 1995. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Newland, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 24, 2012 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated September 25, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Quad City Ultralight
- Model
- CHALLENGER II · all CHALLENGER IIs and related versions
- Serial number
- CH2-0195-1277
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 503 SERIES · 52 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1995
- Transponder code
- A25436 (octal 50452066)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 24, 2012
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · September 25, 2007
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00372669
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Forbes Brandi
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 180 Sugar Mountain Rd 1
Newland, NC 28657-8000 - Co-owners
- Smith Roy B JR
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N2493G, 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 Forbes Brandi, a co-owned, certificate issued September 24, 2012, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 25, 2007, 12 years after the 1995 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 CH2-0195-1277 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2493G was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-38-112 (serial 38-79A0546, cancelled November 20, 2000); Cessna 182B (serial 51793, cancelled February 14, 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]
1 NTSB record under N2493G: Accident on October 1, 2000 at San Luis Obispo, CA: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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: Piper PA-38 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain clearance from terrain while turning to reverse course following inadvertent nighttime flight into instrument meteorological conditions. A factor in the accident was the pilot's lack of experience in nighttime operations.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX00FA354 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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 August 27, 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