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N9473Y

Quad City CHALLENGER II

Valid Indiana

N9473Y is a Quad City CHALLENGER II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine, built in 1995. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Scottsburg, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 14, 2007 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated January 28, 2010.

Aircraft

Maker
Quad City
Model
CHALLENGER II · all CHALLENGER IIs and related versions
Serial number
11KUC
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 503 DCDI · 52 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1995
Transponder code
AD2A01 (octal 53225001)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
November 14, 2007
Expires
December 31, 2028
Last FAA action
July 1, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · January 28, 2010
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00381229

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Beckley Larry
Type
Individual
Address
2527 S Lake Rd S
Scottsburg, IN 47170-6954

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N9473Y, 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 Beckley Larry, an individual, certificate issued November 14, 2007, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 28, 2010, 15 years after the 1995 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 11KUC for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N9473Y according to the deregistered file. [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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N9473Y: Accident on November 11, 1985 at Paducah, KY: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

ATL86LA023Accident on November 11, 1985 at Paducah, KY: serious injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 21064518

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna T210N · operated under 091

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL86LA023 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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