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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Hattabaugh Jack D CHALLENGER II
N4853A is a Hattabaugh Jack D CHALLENGER II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine, built in 1994. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Quitman, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 19, 2025 and expires on May 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated December 7, 2007.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Hattabaugh Jack D
- Model
- CHALLENGER II
- Serial number
- CH2 1194 1253
- 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 · Hirth 2702 · 40 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1994
- Transponder code
- A5FDEE (octal 51376756)
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 19, 2025
- Expires
- May 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- May 19, 2025
- 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 · Registered before Jan 31, 2008FAA certificate purpose code 8A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 7, 2007
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00438929
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Beitz Norman Roy
- 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
- 656 County Road 3120
Quitman, TX 75783-5127
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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 N4853A links to the rest of the register
- Hattabaugh Jack D 1 aircraft on the register
- Hirth 2702 6 aircraft with this engine series · 40 hp
- Quitman, TX 9 aircraft registered in this town
- Texas 29,966 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N4853A.json.
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The public federal record on N4853A, 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 Beitz Norman Roy, an individual, certificate issued May 19, 2025, expires May 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 7, 2007, 13 years after the 1994 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 CH2 1194 1253 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4853A was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Devine Don W EXECUTIVE (serial 18437316, cancelled September 22, 1988); Piper PA-22-150 (serial 22-4006, cancelled September 29, 1960). 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]
1 NTSB record under N4853A: Accident on November 29, 1984 at Tracy, CA: minor injuries, destroyed. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Donald W Devine EXECUTIVE · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data