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Quad City Ultralight Aircraft CHALLENGER II
N8228H is a Quad City Ultralight Aircraft CHALLENGER II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2002. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Port Byron, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 19, 2023 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated December 4, 2017.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Quad City Ultralight Aircraft
- Model
- CHALLENGER II
- Serial number
- CH21000-2022
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 503ULDCDI · 52 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2002
- Transponder code
- AB3BC1 (octal 52635701)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 19, 2023
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 4, 2017
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01225206
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Newberry Earl J
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 5730 230Th St N
Port Byron, IL 61275-9517 - Co-owners
- Newberry Guy W
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
Connections how N8228H links to the rest of the register
- Quad City Ultralight Aircraft 1 aircraft on the register
- Rotax 503ULDCDI 71 aircraft with this engine series · 52 hp
- Port Byron, IL 5 aircraft registered in this town
- Illinois 8,070 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N8228H.json.
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The public federal record on N8228H, 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 Newberry Earl J, a co-owned, certificate issued January 19, 2023, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 4, 2017, 15 years after the 2002 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial CH21000-2022 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8228H was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Douglas DC-6B (serial 43821, cancelled June 30, 1970). 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 N8228H. 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 November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 12, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data