American Champion Aircraft 8KCAB
N111LS is an American Champion Aircraft 8KCAB, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1995. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Azle, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 22, 2011 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated January 6, 1995.
Aircraft
- Maker
- American Champion Aircraft
- Model
- 8KCAB · all 8KCABs and related versions
- Serial number
- 740-95
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming AEIO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1995
- Transponder code
- A030F5 (octal 50030365)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 22, 2011
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Acrobatic · January 6, 1995
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00655192
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Grant William S
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 7100 Silver Creek Azle Rd
Azle, TX 76020-4366
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 N111LS, 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 Grant William S, an individual, certificate issued August 22, 2011, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated January 6, 1995, consistent with the 1995 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 740-95 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N111LS 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 N111LS: Accident on April 1, 1995 at Long Beach, CA: 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 (Acac) 8KCAB · operated under 091
the failure and collapse of the left main landing gear due to a defective and improper weld by the manufacturer.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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