{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2007-09-25","airworthiness_ops":"Registered before Jan 31, 2008","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2012-09-24","city":"NEWLAND","country_code":"US","county_code":"011","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"55564","engine_horsepower":52,"engine_maker":"ROTAX","engine_model":"503 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-09-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-06-10","maker":"Quad City Ultralight","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"QUAD CITY ULTRALIGHT","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"059010P","mode_s_code":"50452066","mode_s_hex":"A25436","model":"CHALLENGER II","n_number":"N2493G","name":"FORBES BRANDI","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"SAN LUIS OBISPO","damage":"DEST","date":"2000-10-01","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"LAX00FA354","probable_cause":"The pilot's failure to maintain clearance from terrain while turning to reverse course following inadvertent nighttime flight into instrument meteorological conditions.  A factor in the accident was the pilot's lack of experience in nighttime operations.","registration":"N2493G","state":"CA","summary":"Accident on October 1, 2000 at San Luis Obispo, CA: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"SMITH ROY B JR","plain_english":"N2493G is a Quad City Ultralight 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 co-owned owners in Newland, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 24, 2012 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated September 25, 2007.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Forbes Brandi, a co-owned, certificate issued September 24, 2012, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 25, 2007, 12 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.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial CH2-0195-1277 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N2493G was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-38-112 (serial 38-79A0546, cancelled November 20, 2000); Cessna 182B (serial 51793, cancelled February 14, 1975). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N2493G: Accident on October 1, 2000 at San Luis Obispo, CA: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"Co-owned","registrant_type_code":"4","seats":2,"serial_number":"CH2-0195-1277","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NC","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"180 SUGAR MOUNTAIN RD 1","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Two-cycle piston","type_engine_code":"7","unique_id":"00372669","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N2493G","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1995,"zip":"286578000"}