American Champion Aircraft 8KCAB
N15WJ is an American Champion Aircraft 8KCAB, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1999. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Salinas, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 7, 2011 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 17, 1999.
Aircraft
- Maker
- American Champion Aircraft
- Model
- 8KCAB · all 8KCABs and related versions
- Serial number
- 824-99
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming AEIO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1999
- Transponder code
- A0C9D3 (octal 50144723)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 7, 2011
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · February 17, 1999
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00643946
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Fleming Laurence Erik
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 33 Calera Canyon Rd
Salinas, CA 93908-9300
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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 N15WJ, 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 Fleming Laurence Erik, an individual, certificate issued April 7, 2011, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated February 17, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 824-99 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N15WJ 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 N15WJ: Accident on August 31, 2025 at Jamesburg, CA: minor 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 Aircraft 8KCAB · operated under 091
On August 31, 2025, about 1100 Pacific daylight time, an American Champion 8KCAB Super Decathlon 177, N3357T, sustained substantial damage when it was involved in an accident near Jamesburg, California. The pilot and pilot rated passenger sustained minor injuries. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. The pilot reported that they were on a scenic flight, maneuvering over a canyon area between 1,500 to 2,000 ft above ground level (agl) with clear skies and no turbulence. With the pilot-rated passenger on the controls, she leveled off about …
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
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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