{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2008-01-15","airworthiness_ops":"Registered before Jan 31, 2008","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2006-10-26","city":"CARPINTERIA","country_code":"US","county_code":"083","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[{"collateral_type":"Aircraft","doc_type":"Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)","doc_type_code":"BOS","party":"","receipt_date":"2026-09-08"}],"eng_mfr_mdl":"55564","engine_horsepower":52,"engine_maker":"ROTAX","engine_model":"503 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-05-26","maker":"Quad City Ultralight Corp","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"QUAD CITY ULTRALIGHT CORP","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"059041I","mode_s_code":"50632366","mode_s_hex":"A334F6","model":"CHALLENGER II","n_number":"N3055K","name":"CARTER MARK A","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N3055K is a Quad City Ultralight Corp CHALLENGER II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine, built in 2000. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Carpinteria, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 26, 2006 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated January 15, 2008. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Carter Mark A, an individual, certificate issued October 26, 2006, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 15, 2008, 8 years after the 2000 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 CH2-0401-CW-2074 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N3055K was previously assigned to 5 other aircraft: Martinez Anthony Louis GENESIS (serial 084, cancelled April 2, 2004); Raytheon Aircraft Company B200 (serial BB-1644, cancelled February 17, 1999); Beech 58 (serial TH1508, cancelled December 15, 1994). 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":"1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 8, 2026).","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No NTSB investigation records located under N3055K. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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":"Western-Pacific","region_code":"4","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"CH2-0401-CW-2074","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"4528 FOOTHILL RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Two-cycle piston","type_engine_code":"7","unique_id":"00289449","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N3055K","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2000,"zip":"930133016"}