American Champion Aircraft 8KCAB
N157WB is an American Champion Aircraft 8KCAB, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2014. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Bhh Leasing #4 LLC, an LLC in Pensacola, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 7, 2014 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for acrobatic, dated March 19, 2014.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- American Champion Aircraft
- Model
- 8KCAB · all 8KCABs and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. Metal wing spars on American Champion production. This is how the American Champion Aircraft 8 Decathlon and Scout family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 1139-2014
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming AEIO-360-H1B · 180 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2014
- Transponder code
- A0E626 (octal 50163046)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 7, 2014
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- October 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · AcrobaticFAA certificate purpose code A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 19, 2014
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01139116
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bhh Leasing #4 LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 10100 Aileron Ave
Pensacola, FL 32506-8223
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N157WB links to the rest of the register
- American Champion Aircraft 8 Decathlon and Scout 672 registered
- American Champion Aircraft 1,101 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming AEIO-360-H1B 124 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Bhh Leasing #4 LLC 7 aircraft in the fleet
- Pensacola, FL 507 aircraft registered in this town
- Pensacola International · PNS
- Roscoe Field · 82J
- Florida 21,705 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the American Champion Aircraft 8 Decathlon and Scout 24 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the American Champion Aircraft 8 Decathlon and Scout 105 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming AEIO-360-H1B 23 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming AEIO-360-H1B 8 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N157WB, 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 Bhh Leasing #4 LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 7, 2014, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for acrobatic, dated March 19, 2014, consistent with the 2014 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1139-2014 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N157WB 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]
2 NTSB records under N157WB: Accident on December 13, 2025 at Irvington, AL: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). Accident on July 1, 2017 at Ferguson, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: American Champion Aircraft 8KCAB · operated under 091
On December 13, 2025, about 1145 central standard time, an American Champion Decathlon, N157WB, was destroyed when it was involved in an accident near Roy E. Ray Airfield (5R7), Bayou La Batre, Alabama. The commercial pilot was fatally injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. According to a witness, the pilot arrived at 5R7 to retrieve two repacked parachutes, which were loaded into the airplane before departure. Security video from a nearby residence captured the airplane departing runway 18 at approximately 1145. The airplane was v…
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: American Champion Aircraft 8KCAB · 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 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data