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N43499

Berg Royal Kenneth CHALLENGER II

Valid Missouri

N43499 is a Berg Royal Kenneth CHALLENGER II, 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 Weatherby, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 24, 2021 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 15, 1992.

Aircraft

Maker
Berg Royal Kenneth
Model
CHALLENGER II
Serial number
CH20191-0618
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Bombardier ROTAX (ALL)
Seats
2
Year built
1991
Transponder code
A535AF (octal 51232657)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 24, 2021
Expires
August 31, 2028
Last FAA action
June 3, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · June 15, 1992
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00413902

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Campbell David O
Type
Individual
Address
7657 SE Wolf Creek Rd
Weatherby, MO 64497-9180

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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

—Piper PA-32-260 · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N43499, 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 Campbell David O, an individual, certificate issued August 24, 2021, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated June 15, 1992, consistent with the 1991 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial CH20191-0618 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N43499 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-32-260 (serial 327400044, cancelled date not given). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N43499: Accident on May 29, 1983 at Lake Butler, FL: serious injuries, destroyed. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

MIA83FA148Accident on May 29, 1983 at Lake Butler, FL: serious injuries, destroyed.serial on NTSB record: 32-7400044

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-32-260 · operated under 091

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA83FA148 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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