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N553FT

Schroeder Derek D CHALLENGER 1 CWS

Valid Nebraska

N553FT is a Schroeder Derek D CHALLENGER 1 CWS, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine, built in 2021. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Lincoln, Nebraska. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 26, 2017 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated December 19, 2021.

Aircraft

Maker
Schroeder Derek D
Model
CHALLENGER 1 CWS
Serial number
0215-CW-0808
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 503 DCDI · 52 hp
Seats
1
Year built
2021
Kit
QUAD CITY ULTRALIGHT ACFT CORP CHALLENGER 1
Transponder code
A70B1F (octal 51605437)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 26, 2017
Expires
May 31, 2027
Last FAA action
January 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · December 19, 2021
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
01254221

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Schroeder Derek D
Type
Individual
Address
1900 Connor St
Lincoln, NE 68505-3695

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N553FT, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Schroeder Derek D, an individual, certificate issued May 26, 2017, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated December 19, 2021, consistent with the 2021 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0215-CW-0808 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N553FT according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N553FT. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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