American Champion Aircraft 8GCBC
N289DM is an American Champion Aircraft 8GCBC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1998. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Tros CORP, a corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 20, 1999 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 16, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- American Champion Aircraft
- Model
- 8GCBC · all 8GCBCs and related versions
- Serial number
- 401-98
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- A2EFC1 (octal 50567701)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 20, 1999
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · October 16, 1998
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00823706
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Tros CORP
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 3511 Silverside Rd Ste 105-Tp
Wilmington, DE 19810-4902
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N289DM, 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 Tros CORP, a corporation, certificate issued April 20, 1999, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated October 16, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 401-98 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N289DM according to the deregistered file. [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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N289DM. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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