Blankenship Douglas M CHALLENGER II SPEC
N2503B is a Blankenship Douglas M CHALLENGER II SPEC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2000. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Bakersfield, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 22, 2005 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 23, 2000.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Blankenship Douglas M
- Model
- CHALLENGER II SPEC
- Serial number
- CH20697CW1621
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Bombardier ROTAX (ALL)
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2000
- Kit
- QUAD CITY ULTRALIGHT ACFT CORP CHALLENGER II
- Transponder code
- A25A41 (octal 50455101)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 22, 2005
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · March 23, 2000
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00556072
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Maldonado Robert R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2901 Park Way
Bakersfield, CA 93304-1024
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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 2
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The public federal record on N2503B, 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 Maldonado Robert R, an individual, certificate issued February 22, 2005, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated March 23, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial CH20697CW1621 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2503B was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-38-112 (serial 3879A0095, cancelled July 18, 1996); Aeronca L-16A (serial 47-1114, cancelled January 7, 1971). 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 N2503B: Accident on March 15, 1996 at St. Paul, MN: 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: Piper PA-38-112 · operated under 091
the pilot's failure to assure an adequate fuel supply for the flight which resulted in fuel exhaustion. A factor associated with the accident was the signs contacted by the airplane during the forced landing.
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