American Champion Aircraft 8KCAB
N101BY is an American Champion Aircraft 8KCAB, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2004. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an owner whose details are withheld at their request. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 10, 2026 and expires on February 28, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated April 16, 2004.
Aircraft
- Maker
- American Champion Aircraft
- Model
- 8KCAB · all 8KCABs and related versions
- Serial number
- 9492004
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming AEIO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2004
- Transponder code
- A0089B (octal 50004233)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 10, 2026
- Expires
- February 28, 2033
- Last FAA action
- February 10, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Acrobatic · April 16, 2004
- FAA region
- —
- FAA record id
- 00091539
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Withheld at the owner's request
- Type
- Individual
- Address
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N101BY, 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 an owner whose details are withheld, an individual, certificate issued February 10, 2026, expires February 28, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated April 16, 2004, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 9492004 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N101BY 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 N101BY: Accident on January 27, 2010 at Fallon, NV: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: American Champion Aircraft 8KCAB · operated under 091
Interference between the front seat lap belt and the rear seat rudder/brake pedal assembly that prevented normal operation of the rudder/brake system, which resulted in the pilots’ inability to maintain directional control.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR10LA121 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data