American Champion Aircraft 8GCBC
N242BC is an American Champion Aircraft 8GCBC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2011. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Elemental Aviation Lc, an LLC in Wichita, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on and expires on . It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 3, 2011.
Where is it now Last seen yesterday at 1:57 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- American Champion Aircraft
- Model
- 8GCBC · all 8GCBCs and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. Metal wing spars on American Champion production. This is how the American Champion Aircraft 8 Decathlon and Scout family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 534-2010
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming O-360-C1G · 180 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 2011
- Transponder code
- A23789 (octal 50433611)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- July 8, 2026
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · January 3, 2011
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01059269
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Elemental Aviation Lc
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 555 N Woodlawn St Ste 208 Bldg 1
Wichita, KS 67208-3672
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N242BC links to the rest of the register
- American Champion Aircraft 8 Decathlon and Scout 674 registered
- American Champion Aircraft 1,103 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-360-C1G 141 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Type certificate A21CE · held by American Champion Aircraft CORP
- Elemental Aviation Lc 17 aircraft in the fleet
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · valid to August 14, 2027
- Wichita, KS 1,312 aircraft registered in this town
- Beech Factory Airport · BEC
- Wichita Dwight D Eisenhower Ntl Airport · ICT
- Cessna Acft Field · CEA
- Colonel James Jabara Airport · AAO
- 2 more landing places in town
- Kansas 5,737 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the American Champion Aircraft 8 Decathlon and Scout 24 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the American Champion Aircraft 8 Decathlon and Scout 105 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-360-C1G 18 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-360-C1G 11 reports since 1995
- Where N242BC is now · Last seen yesterday at 1:57 pm.
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The public federal record on N242BC, 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 Elemental Aviation Lc, an LLC, certificate issued , expires date not given. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated January 3, 2011, consistent with the 2011 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 534-2010 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N242BC 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 N242BC: Accident on September 5, 2025 at Unalakleet, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on September 3, 2011 at Fort Worth, TX: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: American Champion Aircraft 8GCBC · operated under 091
The pilots encounter with an obstructed dip in the landing surface during the landing roll out on a remote airstrip, which resulted in a noseover.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: American Champion Aircraft 8GCBC · operated under 091
The certified flight instructor’s improper flare during a simulated emergency landing.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 4, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data