American Champion Aircraft 8KCAB
N289SA is an American Champion Aircraft 8KCAB, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2005. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Bethel, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 7, 2025 and expires on March 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated June 17, 2005.
Aircraft
- Maker
- American Champion Aircraft
- Model
- 8KCAB · all 8KCABs and related versions
- Serial number
- 993-2005
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming AEIO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2005
- Transponder code
- A2F0FB (octal 50570373)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 7, 2025
- Expires
- March 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- March 7, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Acrobatic · June 17, 2005
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00172909
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Reed Gary
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1880 Swings Corner Pt Isabel Rd
Bethel, OH 45106
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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 N289SA, 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 Reed Gary, an individual, certificate issued March 7, 2025, expires March 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated June 17, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 993-2005 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N289SA 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 N289SA. 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 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