Palermo Robert L CHALLENGER 2
N266RP is a Palermo Robert L CHALLENGER 2, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1989. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Ventress, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 13, 1997 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 22, 1992.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Palermo Robert L
- Model
- CHALLENGER 2
- Serial number
- CH1289Y0489
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Bombardier ROTAX (ALL)
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1989
- Transponder code
- A296CC (octal 50513314)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 13, 1997
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · October 22, 1992
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00933792
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Schexnayder Raymond S JR
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 7614 Cooks Landing Dr
Ventress, LA 70783-4126
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N266RP, 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 Schexnayder Raymond S JR, an individual, certificate issued November 13, 1997, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 22, 1992, 3 years after the 1989 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 CH1289Y0489 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N266RP according to the deregistered file. [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 N266RP: Accident on January 20, 1998 at Erwinville, LA: 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: Palermo CHALLENGER II · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to compensate for the prevailing crosswind. Factors were the crosswind and the loss of engine power due to the separation of the fuel pick-up line.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW98LA408 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