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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 12, 2026Quad City Ultralight Acft Corp CHALLENGER II
N61439 is a Quad City Ultralight Acft Corp CHALLENGER II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Rochester, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 26, 2026 and expires on April 30, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated January 15, 2008.
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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
- CH2-1295-1427
- 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
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A8007D (octal 52000175)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 26, 2026
- Expires
- April 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- April 26, 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 · 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 · January 15, 2008
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00389849
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Marciano Charles Z
- 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
- 395 Warren Ave
Rochester, NY 14618-4319
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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 N61439 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 503 series 449 aircraft with this engine series · 52 hp
- Rochester, NY 177 aircraft registered in this town
- Frederick Douglass/Greater Rochester International · ROC
- New York 6,659 aircraft registered
- Report filed on this aircraft: Plug, missing · 1995-10-20
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N61439.json.
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The public federal record on N61439, 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 Marciano Charles Z, an individual, certificate issued April 26, 2026, expires April 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial CH2-1295-1427 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N61439 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-31-350 (serial 317405466, cancelled May 20, 1988). 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 N61439: Accident on July 7, 2002 at Waco, TX: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Schweizer 269C-1 · operated under 091
The partial loss of engine power due to undetermined reasons. A contributing factor was the pilot's inadequate landing flare which resulted in a hard landing.
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