American Champion Aircraft 8KCAB
N265CA is an American Champion Aircraft 8KCAB, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2004. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Indiana, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 20, 2007 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 27, 2004.
Aircraft
- Maker
- American Champion Aircraft
- Model
- 8KCAB · all 8KCABs and related versions
- Serial number
- 965-2004
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming AEIO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2004
- Transponder code
- A291C3 (octal 50510703)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 20, 2007
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · July 27, 2004
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00114909
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Zacherl Randall L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1971 Groft Rd
Indiana, PA 15701-7209
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 · 3 clear
The public federal record on N265CA, 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 Zacherl Randall L, an individual, certificate issued September 20, 2007, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated July 27, 2004, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 965-2004 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N265CA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Embraer EMB-120RT (serial 120.257, cancelled August 20, 2001). 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 N265CA: Accident on January 9, 1997 at Monroe, MI: fatal, destroyed (29 fatal). 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: Embraer EMB-120RT · operated under 135
The Federal Aviation Adminstration's (FAA) failure to establish adequate aircraft certification standards for flight in icing conditions, the FAA's failure to ensure that at Centro Tecnico Aeroespacial/FAA-approved procedure for the accident airplane's deice system operation was implemented by U.S.-based air carriers, and the FAA's failure to require the establishment of adequate minimum airspeeds for icing conditions, which led to the loss of control when the airplane accumulated a thin, rough, accretion of ice on its lifting surfaces. Contributing to the accident were the flightcrew's decision to operate in icing conditions near the lower margin of the operating airspeed envelope (with flaps retracted) and Comair's failure to establish and adequately disseminate unambiguous minimum airspeed values for flap configurations and for flight in icing conditions.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data