American Champion Aircraft 8GCBC
N186AC is an American Champion Aircraft 8GCBC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1994. It has 3 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Everett, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 25, 2020 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 21, 1994.
Aircraft
- Maker
- American Champion Aircraft
- Model
- 8GCBC · all 8GCBCs and related versions
- Serial number
- 369-94
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1994
- Transponder code
- A156F9 (octal 50253371)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 25, 2020
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 21, 1994
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00195162
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hartman James R Trustee
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 2220 Chestnut St
Everett, WA 98201-2626 - Co-owners
- Hartman Frances L Trustee
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 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N186AC, 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 Hartman James R Trustee, a co-owned, certificate issued September 25, 2020, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated September 21, 1994, consistent with the 1994 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 369-94 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N186AC was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Bell 206A (serial 186, cancelled April 16, 1973); Dyer Clyde E PIETENPOL AIR CAMPER (serial 1, cancelled date not given). 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]
2 NTSB records under N186AC: Accident on January 5, 2007 at Buckley, WA: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on February 13, 2004 at Sunburg, MN: no 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: American Champion (Acac) 8GCBC · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to release brake pressure soon enough when his airplane skidded from wet grass onto dry terrain during an off-airport, full-stop landing. A factor was the change in terrain from wet grass to dry ground in the landing area.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: American Champion (Acac) 8GCBC · operated under 091
The pilot's improper in-flight decision to land off-airport. A factor to the accident was the snow covered ditch.
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