American Champion Aircraft 8KCAB
N1230S is an American Champion Aircraft 8KCAB, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2005. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Specialized Aero Works LLC, an LLC in Bend, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 3, 2025 and expires on September 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated December 7, 2005.
Aircraft
- Maker
- American Champion Aircraft
- Model
- 8KCAB · all 8KCABs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1011-2005
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming AEIO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2005
- Transponder code
- A06140 (octal 50060500)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 3, 2025
- Expires
- September 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- September 3, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Acrobatic · December 7, 2005
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00209619
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Specialized Aero Works LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 63120 Powell Butte Hwy
Bend, OR 97701-7906
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N1230S, 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 Specialized Aero Works LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 3, 2025, expires September 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated December 7, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1011-2005 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1230S was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aerotek PITTS S-2A (serial 2216, cancelled June 8, 2017). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N1230S: Accident on March 8, 2017 at West Palm Beach, FL: 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: Aerotek PITTS S-2A · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll in crosswind conditions.
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