The U.S. aircraft register, updated daily
A American Champion Aircraft 8 Decathlon and Scout, the same model family as N271A
A American Champion Aircraft 8 Decathlon and Scout like this one, not N271A itself. Photo: Bdreyer, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Pictures of N271A itself may be on Planespotters · JetPhotos · Airliners.net. Operator or owner? Send your own picture.
Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026
N271A

American Champion Aircraft 8KCAB

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesFlorida

N271A is an American Champion Aircraft 8KCAB, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2002. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Patty Wagstaff Aviation Safety LLC, an LLC in Saint Augustine, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 15, 2023 and expires on September 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated December 3, 2002.

Where is it now checking the live feed…

Checking the volunteer receiver network for a recent position…

Aircraft broadcast their own position; volunteer receivers pool what they hear. Owners who have asked the FAA not to be displayed are not shown.

Flight history: where it flew in the last seven days · follow it on the live map

Aircraft

Maker
American Champion Aircraft
Model
8KCAB · all 8KCABs and related versions
Built of
steel tube and fabric
The 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
905-2002
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 AEIO-360 SER · 180 hp
Seats
1
Year built
2002
Transponder code
A2AA33 (octal 50525063)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
September 15, 2023
Expires
September 30, 2030
Last FAA action
September 15, 2023
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 · Normal; AcrobaticFAA certificate purpose code NA (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 3, 2002
FAA region
SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00016019

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Patty Wagstaff Aviation Safety LLC
Type
LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
3501B N Ponce de Leon Blvd 360
Saint Augustine, FL 32084-1201

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.

Connections how N271A links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
Place
  • Saint Augustine, FL 184 aircraft registered in this town
  • Florida 21,706 aircraft registered

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N271A.json.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N271A, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Patty Wagstaff Aviation Safety LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 15, 2023, expires September 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated December 3, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 905-2002 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N271A according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N271A. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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