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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 12, 2026Gilson Ronald V CHALLENGER 1
N610RG is a Gilson Ronald V CHALLENGER 1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Cheektowaga, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 12, 2026 and expires on May 31, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 9, 2014.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Gilson Ronald V
- Model
- CHALLENGER 1
- Serial number
- 0610-W-0804
- 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 503 SERIES · 52 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Kit
- QUAD CITY ULTRALIGHT ACFT CORP CHALLENGER I
- Transponder code
- A7F03C (octal 51770074)
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 12, 2026
- Expires
- May 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2026
- 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 · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 9, 2014
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01113360
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Benner William
- 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
- 120 Rowley Rd Apt B
Cheektowaga, NY 14227-1622
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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
Connections how N610RG links to the rest of the register
- Gilson Ronald V 1 aircraft on the register
- Rotax 503 series 449 aircraft with this engine series · 52 hp
- Cheektowaga, NY 3 aircraft registered in this town
- New York 6,659 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N610RG.json.
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The public federal record on N610RG, 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 Benner William, an individual, certificate issued May 12, 2026, expires May 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0610-W-0804 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N610RG was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: S C Aerostar S A YAK-52TW (serial 0312505, cancelled August 10, 2006). 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 N610RG: Accident on April 9, 2005 at Daytona Beach, FL: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Aerostar, S.A Yak-52TW · operated under 091
Pilot's failure to maintain directional control in a variable wind condition during landing resulting in the airplane departing the runway subsequent landing gear separation and impact with trees.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 12, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data