American Champion Aircraft 8KCAB
N275MA is an American Champion Aircraft 8KCAB, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Salem, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 15, 2015 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated January 12, 2006.
Aircraft
- Maker
- American Champion Aircraft
- Model
- 8KCAB · all 8KCABs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1014-2006
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming AEIO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A2BA23 (octal 50535043)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 15, 2015
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Acrobatic · January 12, 2006
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00220849
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Franzoy Steve
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 2400 Highway 187
Salem, NM 87941 - Co-owners
- Franzoy Lorraine
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 · 2 clear
The public federal record on N275MA, 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 Franzoy Steve, a co-owned, certificate issued April 15, 2015, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1014-2006 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N275MA was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Fokker F.27-200 (serial 10256, cancelled July 11, 2003); Mitsubishi MU-2B-25 (serial 255, cancelled date not given). 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 N275MA: Accident on January 4, 1985 at West Point, VA: fatal, destroyed (1 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: Mitsubishi MU-2B-25 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for BFO85FA011 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