Paetzold Larry CHALLENGER II
N260LP is a Paetzold Larry CHALLENGER II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Ayden, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 20, 2021 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 8, 1990.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Paetzold Larry
- Model
- CHALLENGER II
- Serial number
- CH20190-0511
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Bombardier ROTAX (ALL)
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A28005 (octal 50500005)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 20, 2021
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · May 8, 1990
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00574951
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rishel James R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4234 Washington St
Ayden, NC 28513-7096
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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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N260LP, 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 Rishel James R, an individual, certificate issued February 20, 2021, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial CH20190-0511 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N260LP was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Paetzold Larry SENIOR AEROSPORTD260 (serial 30, cancelled February 15, 1990). 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 N260LP: Accident on December 25, 1989 at Hereford, TX: 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: Senior Aerosport/Paet PJ 260 · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN ADEQUATE OBSTACLE CLEARANCE ON THE APPROACH TO LANDING. A FACTOR WAS THE POWER POLE JUST SHORT OF THE END OF THE RUNWAY.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW90DQG01 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data