Rutter William CHALLENGER II
N52711 is a Rutter William CHALLENGER II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine, built in 2008. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Sharp Maurice D, a partnership in Wakefield, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 1, 2024 and expires on June 30, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 15, 2008.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Rutter William
- Model
- CHALLENGER II
- Serial number
- CH2-1105-2695
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 503 DCDI · 52 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2008
- Transponder code
- A6A584 (octal 51522604)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 1, 2024
- Expires
- June 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- June 1, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · July 15, 2008
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00388769
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sharp Maurice D
- Type
- Partnership
- Address
- PO Box 111
Wakefield, KS 67487-0111 - Co-owners
- Sharp Vonda J
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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
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The public federal record on N52711, 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 Sharp Maurice D, a partnership, certificate issued June 1, 2024, expires June 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 15, 2008, consistent with the 2008 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial CH2-1105-2695 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N52711 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 182P (serial 18262788, cancelled date not given). 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 N52711: Accident on March 23, 1985 at Gila Bend, AZ: no 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: Cessna 182P · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX85LA186 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data