Smith John N CHALLENGER II
N4459A is a Smith John N 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 Winnebago, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 7, 2022 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 16, 2006.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Smith John N
- Model
- CHALLENGER II
- Serial number
- 2567
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 503 SERIES · 52 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2006
- Kit
- QUAD CITY ULTRALIGHT ACFT CORP CHALLENGER II
- Transponder code
- A560C4 (octal 51260304)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 7, 2022
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · September 16, 2006
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00183839
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Smith William A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4805 Kendall Rd
Winnebago, IL 61088-9111
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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
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N4459A, 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 Smith William A, an individual, certificate issued March 7, 2022, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 16, 2006, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2567 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4459A was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-22-150 (serial 22-3792, cancelled November 2, 2001). 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 N4459A. 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 October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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