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N8182C

Rubac Carl N CHALLENGER II CLP WG

Valid Texas

N8182C is a Rubac Carl N CHALLENGER II CLP WG, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1998. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Cameron, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 8, 1999 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated January 29, 1999.

Aircraft

Maker
Rubac Carl N
Model
CHALLENGER II CLP WG
Serial number
CH2-0393-CW-0959
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Bombardier ROTAX (ALL)
Seats
2
Year built
1998
Kit
QUAD CITY ULTRALIGHT ACFT CORP CHALLENGER II
Transponder code
AB29B5 (octal 52624665)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 8, 1999
Expires
August 31, 2029
Last FAA action
August 25, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · January 29, 1999
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00893846

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Rubac Carl N
Type
Individual
Address
5564 Fm 1600
Cameron, TX 76520-3572

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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 2

1990-06-11Piper PA-28-161 · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office
1966-07-26Piper PA-18 · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N8182C, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Rubac Carl N, an individual, certificate issued February 8, 1999, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated January 29, 1999, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial CH2-0393-CW-0959 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N8182C was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-161 (serial 288016304, cancelled June 11, 1990); Piper PA-18 (serial 18-3641, cancelled July 26, 1966). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N8182C. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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