American Champion Aircraft 8GCBC
N23BD is an American Champion Aircraft 8GCBC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2009. It has 3 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Casper, Wyoming. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 20, 2023 and expires on October 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 10, 2009.
Aircraft
- Maker
- American Champion Aircraft
- Model
- 8GCBC · all 8GCBCs and related versions
- Serial number
- 517-2009
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360-C1G · 180 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 2009
- Transponder code
- A20644 (octal 50403104)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 20, 2023
- Expires
- October 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 10, 2009
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01036797
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cox Mike Trustee
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 4701 E 12Th St
Casper, WY 82609-3239 - Co-owners
- Cox Cheryl 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.
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The public federal record on N23BD, 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 Cox Mike Trustee, a co-owned, certificate issued October 20, 2023, expires October 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated September 10, 2009, consistent with the 2009 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 517-2009 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N23BD 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 N23BD: Accident on September 1, 2024 at Meeteetse, WY: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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 8GCBC · operated under 091
The pilot’s decision to continue the flight over rising terrain at a low altitude in a high-elevation, high-density-altitude environment.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR24FA291 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