{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2007-11-28","airworthiness_ops":"Registered before Jan 31, 2008","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2011-04-06","city":"RED BUD","country_code":"US","county_code":"157","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"55582","engine_horsepower":52,"engine_maker":"ROTAX","engine_model":"503DC","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-04-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-01-22","maker":"Quad City Ultralight Acft Corp","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"QUAD CITY ULTRALIGHT ACFT CORP","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05902NQ","mode_s_code":"51471357","mode_s_hex":"A672EF","model":"CHALLENGER II SPEC","n_number":"N5142F","name":"MATHEWS LYLE W","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N5142F is a Quad City Ultralight Acft Corp CHALLENGER II SPEC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine, built in 1996. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Red Bud, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 6, 2011 and expires on April 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated November 28, 2007.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Mathews Lyle W, an individual, certificate issued April 6, 2011, expires April 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 28, 2007, 11 years after the 1996 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 CH-21094CW1232 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N5142F was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna T-41A (serial 655142, cancelled July 15, 1970). 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 N5142F. 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":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"CH-21094CW1232","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"IL","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"4630 STATE ROUTE 155","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Two-cycle piston","type_engine_code":"7","unique_id":"00356499","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N5142F","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1996,"zip":"622782656"}