Quad 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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Quad City Ultralight Acft Corp
- Model
- CHALLENGER II · all CHALLENGER IIs and related versions
- Serial number
- CH2-1295-1427
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 503 SERIES · 52 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A8007D (octal 52000175)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 26, 2026
- Expires
- April 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- April 26, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · January 15, 2008
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00389849
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Marciano Charles Z
- Type
- Individual
- 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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
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]
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.
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.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW02LA201 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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