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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Reams Arnold D CHALLENGER II
N873D is a Reams Arnold D 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 Clarksville, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 19, 2025 and expires on February 29, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated September 11, 2006.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Reams Arnold D
- Model
- CHALLENGER II
- Serial number
- CH2-1295-1434
- 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
- Two-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 7 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 503DCSI · 52 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- AC01C6 (octal 53000706)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 19, 2025
- Expires
- February 29, 2032
- Last FAA action
- February 19, 2025
- 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 · Registered before Jan 31, 2008FAA certificate purpose code 8A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 11, 2006
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00266579
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Merriman John
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 141 Mayhew Rd
Clarksville, TN 37040-7438
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N873D links to the rest of the register
- Reams Arnold D 1 aircraft on the register
- Rotax 503DCSI 72 aircraft with this engine series · 52 hp
- Clarksville, TN 79 aircraft registered in this town
- Outlaw Field · CKV
- Tennessee 6,518 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N873D.json.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N873D, 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 Merriman John, an individual, certificate issued February 19, 2025, expires February 29, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial CH2-1295-1434 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N873D 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 N873D. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data