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N4281P

Patin Donald Joseph CHALLENGER

Valid Michigan

N4281P is a Patin Donald Joseph CHALLENGER, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1991. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Cedar Springs, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 26, 1991 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 27, 1991.

Aircraft

Maker
Patin Donald Joseph
Model
CHALLENGER
Serial number
CH21290CW0599
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Bombardier ROTAX (ALL)
Seats
2
Year built
1991
Transponder code
A51BE0 (octal 51215740)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 26, 1991
Expires
October 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 24, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · August 27, 1991
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00675471

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Patin Donald J
Type
Individual
Address
14632 White Creek Rd
Cedar Springs, MI 49319

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N4281P, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Patin Donald J, an individual, certificate issued July 26, 1991, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated August 27, 1991, consistent with the 1991 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial CH21290CW0599 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N4281P according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N4281P. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 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, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data