American Champion Aircraft 8GCBC
N24SD is an American Champion Aircraft 8GCBC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2022. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Houston, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 11, 2025 and expires on December 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 6, 2022.
Where is it now Last seen October 13 at 3:50 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
- 624-2022
- 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 IO-390-A1B6 · 210 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2022
- Transponder code
- A22F3A (octal 50427472)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 11, 2025
- Expires
- December 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- December 11, 2025
- 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 · September 6, 2022
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01370249
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hall Mike
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 9809 Larston St
Houston, TX 77055-6119
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
Connections how N24SD links to the rest of the register
- American Champion Aircraft 8 Decathlon and Scout 671 registered
- American Champion Aircraft 1,100 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 IO-390-A1B6 47 aircraft with this engine series · 210 hp
- Type certificate A21CE · held by American Champion Aircraft CORP
- Houston, TX 1,181 aircraft registered in this town
- Conroe/North Houston Regional · CXO
- David Wayne Hooks Memorial · DWH
- Ellington Airport · EFD
- George Bush Intcntl/Houston Airport · IAH
- 8 more landing places in town
- Texas 29,911 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 IO-390-A1B6 5 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-390-A1B6 3 reports since 1995
- Where N24SD is now · Last seen October 13 at 3:50 pm.
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The public federal record on N24SD, 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 Hall Mike, an individual, certificate issued December 11, 2025, expires December 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated September 6, 2022, consistent with the 2022 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 624-2022 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N24SD was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Bell 47G-3B-1 (serial 3671, cancelled July 14, 2008); Bell TH-13T (serial 3535, cancelled December 2, 1988). 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]
2 NTSB records under N24SD: Accident on April 11, 2008 at Denio, NV: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on September 13, 2005 at Rock Springs, WY: 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.
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NTSB records 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell 47G-3B-1 · operated under 091
The pilot's inadvertent hard landing induced by a perceived loss of power and a main transmission anomaly while maneuvering at low altitude.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell 47G-3B-1 · operated under 091
the pilot's failure to maintain control of the helicopter during the attempted autorotation after he experienced an engine overspeed that occurred for reasons undetermined.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data