Quad City CHALLENGER II
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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Quad City
- Model
- CHALLENGER II · all CHALLENGER IIs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminium tube and fabricAn ultralight-style airframe: bolted aluminium tubing under sailcloth or fabric, the construction of weight-shift trikes and the lightest two-seaters. An ultralight-style airframe: bolted aluminium tubing under sailcloth. This is how the Quad City CHALLENGER II family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 11KUC
- 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 503 DCDI · 52 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1995
- Transponder code
- AD2A01 (octal 53225001)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 14, 2007
- Expires
- December 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- July 1, 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 · 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 · January 28, 2010
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00381229
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Beckley Larry
- 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
- 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.
Connections how N9473Y links to the rest of the register
- Quad City CHALLENGER II 12 registered
- Quad City 19 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Rotax 503 DCDI 561 aircraft with this engine series · 52 hp
- Scottsburg, IN 12 aircraft registered in this town
- Honaker Field · 3R8
- Indiana 5,700 aircraft registered
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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.
Valid registration to Beckley Larry, an individual, certificate issued November 14, 2007, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 11KUC for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9473Y 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]
1 NTSB record under N9473Y: Accident on November 11, 1985 at Paducah, KY: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna T210N · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data