{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2007-11-03","airworthiness_ops":"Registered before Jan 31, 2008","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2010-12-03","city":"RAIFORD","country_code":"US","county_code":"125","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"55566","engine_horsepower":52,"engine_maker":"ROTAX","engine_model":"503 DCDI","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-12-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-09-22","maker":"Crone Glenn F","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CRONE GLENN F","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05902K5","mode_s_code":"51442656","mode_s_hex":"A645AE","model":"CHALLENGER II","n_number":"N503GC","name":"VANDIVER CHRISTOPHER B","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N503GC is a Crone Glenn F CHALLENGER II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine, built in 2003. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Raiford, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 3, 2010 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated November 3, 2007.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Vandiver Christopher B, an individual, certificate issued December 3, 2010, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 3, 2007, 4 years after the 2003 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 CH2-1001-2141 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N503GC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cartwright Gary Lynn DRIFTER XP503 (serial DR0221, cancelled June 4, 2001). 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N503GC. 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":"Southern","region_code":"7","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"CH2-1001-2141","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"FL","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"12040 NE COUNTY ROAD 793","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Two-cycle piston","type_engine_code":"7","unique_id":"00352089","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N503GC","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2003,"zip":"320832730"}