American Champion Aircraft 8KCAB
N2468W is an American Champion Aircraft 8KCAB, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Orange, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 4, 2021 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated August 15, 2001.
Aircraft
- Maker
- American Champion Aircraft
- Model
- 8KCAB · all 8KCABs and related versions
- Serial number
- 886-2001
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming AEIO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A249CE (octal 50444716)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 4, 2021
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · August 15, 2001
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00253954
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Godwin Gerald
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 15421 Highway 12
Orange, TX 77632-5605 - Co-owners
- Hays Cory / Bridges Brandon Neal
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 N2468W, 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 Godwin Gerald, a co-owned, certificate issued August 4, 2021, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 886-2001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2468W was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Schweizer SGS 2-33 (serial 28, cancelled May 5, 1981). 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 N2468W: Accident on September 18, 2021 at Beaumont, TX: serious 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: American Champion Aircraft 8KCAB · operated under 091
The flight instructor’s failure to maintain aircraft control during the turn to final approach resulting in a rapid descent and impact with terrain.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN21LA468 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
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