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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 12, 2026Quad City Ultralight Acft Corp CHALLENGER II
N61086 is a Quad City Ultralight Acft Corp CHALLENGER II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine, built in 1998. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Santa Maria, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 30, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated December 28, 2007.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Quad City Ultralight Acft Corp
- Model
- CHALLENGER II · all CHALLENGER IIs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminium tube and fabricAn ultralight-style airframe: bolted aluminium tubing under sailcloth or fabric, the construction of weight-shift trikes and the lightest two-seaters. An ultralight-style airframe: bolted aluminium tubing under sailcloth. This is how the Quad City Ultralight Acft Corp CHALLENGER II family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- CH2-0796-1509
- 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 · Rotax 503UL · 52 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- A7F24D (octal 51771115)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 30, 2023
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- May 16, 2023
- 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 28, 2007
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00386219
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rateau Claude
- 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
- 1183 Parkland Dr
Santa Maria, CA 93455-3410
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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 N61086 links to the rest of the register
- Quad City Ultralight Acft Corp CHALLENGER II 37 registered
- Quad City Ultralight Acft Corp 54 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Rotax 503UL 24 aircraft with this engine series · 52 hp
- Santa Maria, CA 76 aircraft registered in this town
- Santa Maria Pub/Capt G Allan Hancock Field · SMX
- California 28,279 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N61086, 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 Rateau Claude, an individual, certificate issued March 30, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 28, 2007, 9 years after the 1998 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 CH2-0796-1509 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N61086 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Maule MX-7-180 (serial 11036C, cancelled April 17, 1989); Cessna 150J (serial 15070789, cancelled September 24, 1970). 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 N61086. 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 November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 12, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data