American Champion Aircraft 8KCAB
N102JV is an American Champion Aircraft 8KCAB, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2013. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Western Michigan University, a government body in Battle Creek, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 19, 2013 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated July 26, 2013.
Aircraft
- Maker
- American Champion Aircraft
- Model
- 8KCAB · all 8KCABs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1128-2013
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming AEIO-360-H1B · 180 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2013
- Transponder code
- A00CFE (octal 50006376)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 19, 2013
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · July 26, 2013
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01125112
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Western Michigan University
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 237 N Helmer Rd
Battle Creek, MI 49037 - Co-owners
- Board Of Trustees
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N102JV, 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 Western Michigan University, a government body, certificate issued September 19, 2013, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated July 26, 2013, consistent with the 2013 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1128-2013 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N102JV 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N102JV. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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 September 30, 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