Byrd Melvin Gene CHALLENGER II
N81038 is a Byrd Melvin Gene 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 Kinston, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 8, 2025 and expires on May 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 17, 1989.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Byrd Melvin Gene
- Model
- CHALLENGER II
- Serial number
- CH20788CW0344
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Bombardier ROTAX (ALL)
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- AB0C3E (octal 52606076)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 8, 2025
- Expires
- May 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- May 8, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · March 17, 1989
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00824431
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Long Robert D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 523 Tyree Rd
Kinston, NC 28504-5369
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
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 N81038, 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 Long Robert D, an individual, certificate issued May 8, 2025, expires May 31, 2032. 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 CH20788CW0344 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N81038 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 140 (serial 10328, cancelled June 13, 1960). 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 N81038. 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