American Champion Aircraft 8KCAB
N298MA 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 Southern Air Service INC, a corporation in Carbondale, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 31, 2013 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated August 2, 2004.
Aircraft
- Maker
- American Champion Aircraft
- Model
- 8KCAB · all 8KCABs and related versions
- Serial number
- 961-2004
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming AEIO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2004
- Transponder code
- A31446 (octal 50612106)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 31, 2013
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Acrobatic · August 2, 2004
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00114919
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Southern Air Service INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 700 New Era Rd
Carbondale, IL 62901-5303
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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N298MA, 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 Southern Air Service INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 31, 2013, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated August 2, 2004, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 961-2004 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N298MA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mitsubishi MU-2B-35 (serial 594, 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N298MA. 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