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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 4, 2026De Costa David A CHALLENGER II
N43182 is a De Costa David A CHALLENGER II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine, built in 2006. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in New Bedford, Massachusetts. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 9, 2019 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated December 14, 2006.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- De Costa David A
- Model
- CHALLENGER II
- Serial number
- CH2-0104-2439
- 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 532 · 65 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2006
- Kit
- C & L ENTERPRISES CHALLENGER II
- Transponder code
- A52A60 (octal 51225140)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 9, 2019
- Expires
- May 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 4, 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 · December 14, 2006
- FAA region
- New EnglandFAA region code E (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00136569
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- De Costa David A
- 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
- 28 Grant St
New Bedford, MA 02740-2719
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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 N43182 links to the rest of the register
- De Costa David A 1 aircraft on the register
- Rotax 532 35 aircraft with this engine series · 65 hp
- New Bedford, MA 25 aircraft registered in this town
- New Bedford Regional · EWB
- Massachusetts 2,645 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N43182.json.
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The public federal record on N43182, 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 De Costa David A, an individual, certificate issued May 9, 2019, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated December 14, 2006, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial CH2-0104-2439 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N43182 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-180 (serial 28-7405180, cancelled August 23, 1982); Taylorcraft BC12-D (serial 6841, cancelled July 14, 1965). 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 N43182. 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 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 4, 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 4, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data