Quad City Ultralight Acft Corp CHALLENGER II
N2542A is a Quad City Ultralight Acft Corp CHALLENGER II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine, built in 1992. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Punta Gorda, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 4, 2013 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated September 18, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Quad City Ultralight Acft Corp
- Model
- CHALLENGER II · all CHALLENGER IIs and related versions
- Serial number
- 0392-0829
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 503 DCDI · 52 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1992
- Transponder code
- A268F9 (octal 50464371)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 4, 2013
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · September 18, 2007
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00368119
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Parrish John W
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 28805 Palm Shores Blvd
Punta Gorda, FL 33982-1127 - Co-owners
- Parrish Don M
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 N2542A, 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 Parrish John W, a co-owned, certificate issued September 4, 2013, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 18, 2007, 15 years after the 1992 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 0392-0829 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2542A was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-38-112 (serial 38-78A0745, cancelled April 19, 2004); Piper PA-22-135 (serial 22-839, cancelled June 30, 1970). 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 N2542A: Accident on February 28, 2001 at Lincoln, RI: minor 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 loose fuel line, which resulted in fuel starvation to the engine.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC01LA081 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