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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- American Champion Aircraft
- Model
- 8GCBC · all 8GCBCs and related versions
- Serial number
- 534-2010
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360-C1G · 180 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 2011
- Transponder code
- A23789 (octal 50433611)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- July 8, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · January 3, 2011
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 01059269
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Elemental Aviation Lc
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 555 N Woodlawn St Ste 208 Bldg 1
Wichita, KS 67208-3672
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.
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
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]
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 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.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC25LA102 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: American Champion Aircraft 8GCBC · operated under 091
The certified flight instructor’s improper flare during a simulated emergency landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN11CA684 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