Platner John L CHALLENGER II
N30460 is a Platner John L CHALLENGER II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2011. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Inverness, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 8, 2021 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated November 26, 2012.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Platner John L
- Model
- CHALLENGER II
- Serial number
- CH2-0601-2098
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Rotax 582SER · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2011
- Kit
- QUAD CITY ULTRALIGHT ACFT CORP CHALLENGER II
- Transponder code
- A33171 (octal 50630561)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 8, 2021
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- August 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · November 26, 2012
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00907321
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wilson John D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 6836 E Royal Crest
Inverness, FL 34452
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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
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The public federal record on N30460, 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 Wilson John D, an individual, certificate issued October 8, 2021, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated November 26, 2012, consistent with the 2011 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial CH2-0601-2098 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N30460 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-181 (serial 28-7990091, cancelled March 7, 1984); Cessna 177A (serial 17701268, cancelled July 13, 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 N30460: Accident on October 11, 1983 at Poughkeepsie, NY: minor injuries, destroyed. Details below. [4]
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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-28-181 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC84FHM01 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