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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- American Champion Aircraft
- Model
- 8KCAB · all 8KCABs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1139-2014
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming AEIO-360-H1B · 180 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2014
- Transponder code
- A0E626 (octal 50163046)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 7, 2014
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- October 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Acrobatic · March 19, 2014
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 01139116
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bhh Leasing #4 LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 10100 Aileron Ave
Pensacola, FL 32506-8223
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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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…
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA26FA067 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
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.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA17CA391 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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 August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data