Smith Richard D CHALLENGER II
N703CF is a Smith Richard D CHALLENGER II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2003. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Grand Marais, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 4, 2006 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 20, 2004.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Smith Richard D
- Model
- CHALLENGER II
- Serial number
- CH2-0303-2311
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Rotax SEE BOMBADIER
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2003
- Kit
- QUAD CITY ULTRALIGHT ACFT CORP CHALLENGER II
- Transponder code
- A95FEB (octal 52257753)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 4, 2006
- Expires
- May 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · May 20, 2004
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00065939
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Saethre David M
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 982
Grand Marais, MN 55604-0982
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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 N703CF, 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 Saethre David M, an individual, certificate issued January 4, 2006, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated May 20, 2004, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial CH2-0303-2311 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N703CF according to the deregistered file. [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 N703CF. 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 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