American Champion Aircraft 8GCBC
N249SF is an American Champion Aircraft 8GCBC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2000. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Carmel Valley, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 16, 2009 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 7, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- American Champion Aircraft
- Model
- 8GCBC · all 8GCBCs and related versions
- Serial number
- 418-2000
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360-C1G · 180 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 2000
- Transponder code
- A25304 (octal 50451404)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 16, 2009
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · July 7, 2007
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00545800
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Casarez David W
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 19 Aliso Rd
Carmel Valley, CA 93924-9442
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 N249SF, 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 Casarez David W, an individual, certificate issued July 16, 2009, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 7, 2007, 7 years after the 2000 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 418-2000 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N249SF 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 N249SF: Accident on June 26, 2001 at Paris, 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: American Champion (Acac) 8GCBC · operated under 091
the excessive pull up by the passenger along with the certified flight instructor's inadequate supervision leading to a loss of control during the takeoff initial climb.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW01LA155 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