Robert Saltz SALTZ CHALLENGER II
N888YQ is a Robert Saltz SALTZ CHALLENGER II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine, built in 2020. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Long Beach, Mississippi. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 5, 2023 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 23, 2020.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robert Saltz
- Model
- SALTZ CHALLENGER II
- Serial number
- 009
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 503 SERIES · 52 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2020
- Transponder code
- AC3DC2 (octal 53036702)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 5, 2023
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · July 23, 2020
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01319108
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Matthews Benjamin Thomas
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 305 Gates Ave
Long Beach, MS 39560-4815
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N888YQ, 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 Matthews Benjamin Thomas, an individual, certificate issued January 5, 2023, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 23, 2020, consistent with the 2020 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 009 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N888YQ 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 N888YQ. 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 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data