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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Quad City Challenger CHALLENGER 1
N4278E is a Quad City Challenger CHALLENGER 1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine, built in 1997. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Valley Springs, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 29, 2015 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated May 28, 2008.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Quad City Challenger
- Model
- CHALLENGER 1
- Serial number
- 028700219
- 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 · Rotax 447 · 40 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- A51915 (octal 51214425)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 29, 2015
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Light sportFAA airworthiness class code 9 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · AirplaneFAA certificate purpose code A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 28, 2008
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00453099
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Webber Alvin R
- 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
- 3510 Leary Ct
Valley Springs, CA 95252-9522
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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 N4278E links to the rest of the register
- Quad City Challenger 7 aircraft on the register
- Rotax 447 135 aircraft with this engine series · 40 hp
- Valley Springs, CA 18 aircraft registered in this town
- California 27,897 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N4278E, 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 Webber Alvin R, an individual, certificate issued April 29, 2015, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 28, 2008, 11 years after the 1997 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 028700219 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4278E was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-38-112 (serial 3878A0525, cancelled August 24, 1994); Aeronca 7AC (serial 7AC7166, cancelled June 17, 1949). 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 N4278E: Accident on July 29, 1989 at Liberty, MO: 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: Piper PA-38-112 · operated under 091
CONTROL INTERFERENCE BY THE DUAL STUDENT AS THE INSTRUCTOR TRIED TO RECOVER FROM THE STUDENT'S BOUNCED LANDING, AND FAILURE TO MAINTAIN PROPER RUNWAY ALIGNMENT. CONTRIBUTING FACTORS WERE: IMPROPER FLARE BY THE STUDENT, THE CROSSWIND, THE STUDENT'S APPREHENSION DURING THE BOUNCED LANDING, AND THE CROP BESIDE THE RUNWAY.
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