American Champion Aircraft 8KCAB
N2525S is an American Champion Aircraft 8KCAB, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2025. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Jbird Aviation LLC, an LLC in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 29, 2025 and expires on September 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated July 16, 2025.
Aircraft
- Maker
- American Champion Aircraft
- Model
- 8KCAB · all 8KCABs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1225-2025
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming AEIO-360-H1B · 180 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2025
- Transponder code
- A26204 (octal 50461004)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 29, 2025
- Expires
- September 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- September 29, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Acrobatic · July 16, 2025
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01511763
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Jbird Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1942 N Road St
Elizabeth City, NC 27909-9343
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 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N2525S, 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 Jbird Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 29, 2025, expires September 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated July 16, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1225-2025 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2525S was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Curtiss-Peek JN4D (serial 1917, cancelled February 12, 2018); Cessna A185F (serial 18502244, cancelled April 11, 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]
1 NTSB record under N2525S: Accident on October 12, 1987 at Glasgow, MT: 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: Cessna A185F · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN88LA009 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