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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Quad City Ultralight Acft Corp CHALLENGER II
N2550E is a Quad City Ultralight Acft Corp CHALLENGER II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine, built in 2005. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Cookeville, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 16, 2024 and expires on March 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated October 3, 2007.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Quad City Ultralight Acft Corp
- Model
- CHALLENGER II · all CHALLENGER IIs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminium tube and fabricAn ultralight-style airframe: bolted aluminium tubing under sailcloth or fabric, the construction of weight-shift trikes and the lightest two-seaters. An ultralight-style airframe: bolted aluminium tubing under sailcloth. This is how the Quad City Ultralight Acft Corp CHALLENGER II family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- CH2-2373
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Two-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 7 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 503 DCDI · 52 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2005
- Transponder code
- A26C6E (octal 50466156)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 16, 2024
- Expires
- March 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- March 16, 2024
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Registered before Jan 31, 2008FAA certificate purpose code 8A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 3, 2007
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00347079
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Richards Douglas A
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1150 Hawkins Crawford Rd
Cookeville, TN 38501-6661
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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
Connections how N2550E links to the rest of the register
- Quad City Ultralight Acft Corp CHALLENGER II 37 registered
- Quad City Ultralight Acft Corp 54 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Rotax 503 DCDI 561 aircraft with this engine series · 52 hp
- Cookeville, TN 59 aircraft registered in this town
- Tennessee 6,535 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N2550E, 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 Richards Douglas A, an individual, certificate issued March 16, 2024, expires March 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated October 3, 2007, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial CH2-2373 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2550E was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aeronca 7AC (serial 7AC-6133, cancelled June 19, 1967). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N2550E. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data