Pfeifer Michael A CHALLENGER LSS II
N803SM is a Pfeifer Michael A CHALLENGER LSS II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Camanche, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 15, 2024 and expires on May 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 11, 2010.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Pfeifer Michael A
- Model
- CHALLENGER LSS II
- Serial number
- CH2-0107-LSS-0119
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Rotax 503 SERIES · 52 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Kit
- QUAD CITY ULTRALIGHT ACFT CORP CHALLENGER II
- Transponder code
- AAEE9E (octal 52567236)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 15, 2024
- Expires
- May 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- May 15, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · May 11, 2010
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 01049351
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Aplin Jeffrey J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 707 3Rd St
Camanche, IA 52730-2212
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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 · 1 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N803SM, 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 Aplin Jeffrey J, an individual, certificate issued May 15, 2024, expires May 31, 2031. 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 CH2-0107-LSS-0119 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N803SM was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell 206B (serial 4043, cancelled February 6, 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N803SM. 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