Rushka Shawn A CHALLENGER II
N2535Z is a Rushka Shawn A CHALLENGER II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1998. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Lennon, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 19, 2001 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 26, 2001.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Rushka Shawn A
- Model
- CHALLENGER II
- Serial number
- CH210981790
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Bombardier ROTAX (ALL)
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1998
- Kit
- QUAD CITY ULTRALIGHT ACFT CORP CHALLENGER II
- Transponder code
- A265C2 (octal 50462702)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 19, 2001
- Expires
- May 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · September 26, 2001
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00776000
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rushka Shawn A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 11675 Copas Rd
Lennon, MI 48449-9652
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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 N2535Z, 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 Rushka Shawn A, an individual, certificate issued January 19, 2001, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 26, 2001, 3 years after the 1998 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 CH210981790 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2535Z was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bellanca 8KCAB (serial 34177, cancelled March 24, 1997). 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 N2535Z: Accident on August 15, 1996 at Elkton, MD: fatal, destroyed (2 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: Bellanca 8KCAB · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain adequate altitude and control of the airplane while performing aerobatic maneuvers.
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