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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 12, 2026Travis G D/Fly Lite Avia CHALLENGER II
N4078S is a Travis G D/Fly Lite Avia CHALLENGER II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2014. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Fair Lawn, New Jersey. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 29, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 19, 2014.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Travis G D/Fly Lite Avia
- Model
- CHALLENGER II
- Serial number
- CH2-0997-1655
- 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
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 503 SERIES · 52 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2014
- Kit
- QUAD CITY ULTRALIGHT ACFT CORP CHALLENGER II
- Transponder code
- A4CA23 (octal 51145043)
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 29, 2023
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- April 27, 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 · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 19, 2014
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00853934
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Schulman Paul
- 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
- 9-15 Norma Ave
Fair Lawn, NJ 07410-1704
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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 N4078S links to the rest of the register
- Travis G D/Fly Lite Avia 1 aircraft on the register
- Rotax 503 series 449 aircraft with this engine series · 52 hp
- Fair Lawn, NJ 6 aircraft registered in this town
- New Jersey 3,019 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N4078S.json.
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The public federal record on N4078S, 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 Schulman Paul, an individual, certificate issued March 29, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated March 19, 2014, consistent with the 2014 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial CH2-0997-1655 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4078S was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Raven S-60A (serial S60A-241, cancelled February 3, 1984). 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 N4078S. 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 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 12, 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 12, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data