Monacelli Russell CHALLENGER II
N9061F is a Monacelli Russell 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 Decatur, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 22, 2025 and expires on October 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated January 29, 2008.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Monacelli Russell
- Model
- CHALLENGER II
- Serial number
- CH2-0199-1835
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 582DCDI · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Kit
- QUAD CITY ULTRALIGHT ACFT CORP CHALLENGER II
- Transponder code
- AC87F7 (octal 53103767)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 22, 2025
- Expires
- October 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- October 22, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · January 29, 2008
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00143615
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bixler Don A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3488 W 1200 N
Decatur, IN 46733-8782
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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 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N9061F, 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 Bixler Don A, an individual, certificate issued October 22, 2025, expires October 31, 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 CH2-0199-1835 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9061F was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Hughes 369HS (serial 800245S, cancelled April 27, 1977). 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 N9061F. 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