American Champion Aircraft 8GCBC
N131RC is an American Champion Aircraft 8GCBC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1996. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Catheys Valley, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 21, 2004 and expires on April 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 18, 1996.
Aircraft
- Maker
- American Champion Aircraft
- Model
- 8GCBC · all 8GCBCs and related versions
- Serial number
- 376-96
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-360-A1D · 180 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1996
- Transponder code
- A08062 (octal 50100142)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 21, 2004
- Expires
- April 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 18, 1996
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00495841
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Nordman Clay DBA
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3642 Guadalupe Fire Rd
Catheys Valley, CA 95306-9775 - Co-owners
- Cal Agra Farms
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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N131RC, 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 Nordman Clay DBA, an individual, certificate issued April 21, 2004, expires April 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated March 18, 1996, consistent with the 1996 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 376-96 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N131RC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-42 (serial 428001006, cancelled June 10, 1992). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N131RC. 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