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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Challenger CHALLENGER II
N3028U is a Challenger CHALLENGER II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine, built in 1993. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Connersville, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 17, 2007 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated October 30, 2007.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Challenger
- Model
- CHALLENGER II
- Serial number
- CH219-0593
- 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 · Hirth 2703 · 55 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1993
- Transponder code
- A32A43 (octal 50625103)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 17, 2007
- Expires
- June 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 19, 2023
- 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 30, 2007
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00391329
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mullins Randy L
- 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
- 1827 Boulevard Pl
Connersville, IN 47331-2226
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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 2
Connections how N3028U links to the rest of the register
- Challenger 9 aircraft on the register
- Hirth 2703 9 aircraft with this engine series · 55 hp
- Connersville, IN 13 aircraft registered in this town
- Mettel Field · CEV
- Indiana 5,704 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N3028U.json.
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The public federal record on N3028U, 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 Mullins Randy L, an individual, certificate issued August 17, 2007, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 30, 2007, 14 years after the 1993 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 CH219-0593 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3028U was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Lafleur John LEFLEUR GYPSY II (serial 11644, cancelled June 29, 2005); Cessna 172E (serial 17250628, cancelled February 22, 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 N3028U: Accident on April 20, 1987 at Tucson, AZ: 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: Cessna 172E · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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