Searby Steve E CHALLENGER II
N4601F is a Searby Steve E CHALLENGER II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine, built in 1995. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Lena, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 24, 2007 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for operating light-sport previously certificated, dated April 29, 2013.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Searby Steve E
- Model
- CHALLENGER II
- Serial number
- SS001
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 447 · 40 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1995
- Transponder code
- A59C1C (octal 51316034)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 24, 2007
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Operating light-sport previously certificated · April 29, 2013
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00396799
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Searby Steve E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 506 N Center St
Lena, IL 61048-9201
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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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N4601F, 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 Searby Steve E, an individual, certificate issued August 24, 2007, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 29, 2013, 18 years after the 1995 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 SS001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4601F was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-28R-200 (serial 28R7635418, cancelled September 26, 1978); Cessna TP206A (serial P206-0201, cancelled January 23, 1967). 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 N4601F. 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