American Champion Aircraft 8GCBC
N165AC is an American Champion Aircraft 8GCBC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Brian & Karen Snodgrass Farms LLC, an LLC in Seminole, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 27, 2023 and expires on October 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 28, 2005.
Aircraft
- Maker
- American Champion Aircraft
- Model
- 8GCBC · all 8GCBCs and related versions
- Serial number
- 471-2005
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A10444 (octal 50202104)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 27, 2023
- Expires
- October 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 27, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 28, 2005
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00177269
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Brian & Karen Snodgrass Farms LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 2401 SW Avenue D
Seminole, TX 79360-3032
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 · 2 clear
The public federal record on N165AC, 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 Brian & Karen Snodgrass Farms LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 27, 2023, expires October 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 471-2005 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N165AC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Sikorsky S-64F (serial 64085, cancelled March 1, 2001). 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 N165AC: Accident on September 1, 1994 at Libby, MT: minor injuries, destroyed. 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: Sikorsky S-64F · operated under 091
THE FLIGHT CREW ALLOWED THE HELICOPTER'S WEIGHT AND BALANCE TO BE EXCEEDED, AND THE EXTERNAL LOAD (TANK) JETTISON SYSTEM FAILED TO OPERATE. A FACTOR RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WAS: THE FALSE INDICATION ON THE RETARDANT QUANTITY INDICATOR.
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