Wechman Brian CHALLENGER II
N543BW is a Wechman Brian 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 Jackson, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 10, 2026 and expires on July 31, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated December 17, 2006. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Wechman Brian
- Model
- CHALLENGER II
- Serial number
- CH2-1005-Y-2685
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 503 DCDI · 52 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2006
- Kit
- QUAD CITY ULTRALIGHT ACFT CORP CHALLENGER II
- Transponder code
- A6E33F (octal 51561477)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 10, 2026
- Expires
- July 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- July 10, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · December 17, 2006
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00265589
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Simmons Lee S
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 352 N Highland Ave
Jackson, TN 38301-5278
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Documents on file 1
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The public federal record on N543BW, 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 Simmons Lee S, an individual, certificate issued July 10, 2026, expires July 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated December 17, 2006, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial CH2-1005-Y-2685 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N543BW according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 23, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N543BW. 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