American Champion Aircraft 8KCAB
N38AC is an American Champion Aircraft 8KCAB, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1990. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Trinity Center, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 24, 1990 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for acrobatic, dated August 31, 1990.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- American Champion Aircraft
- Model
- 8KCAB · all 8KCABs and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe 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
- 643-90
- 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
- 1990
- Transponder code
- A458F4 (octal 51054364)
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 24, 1990
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- August 14, 2025
- 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 · AcrobaticFAA certificate purpose code A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 31, 1990
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00744911
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cesafsky Allen A
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 43
Trinity Center, CA 96091-0043
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N38AC links to the rest of the register
- American Champion Aircraft 8 Decathlon and Scout 671 registered
- American Champion Aircraft 1,100 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming AEIO-360 series 884 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Trinity Center, CA 7 aircraft registered in this town
- Trinity Center Airport · O86
- California 27,610 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the American Champion Aircraft 8 Decathlon and Scout 24 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the American Champion Aircraft 8 Decathlon and Scout 105 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming AEIO-360 series 23 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming AEIO-360 series 30 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N38AC, 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 Cesafsky Allen A, an individual, certificate issued September 24, 1990, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for acrobatic, dated August 31, 1990, consistent with the 1990 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 643-90 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N38AC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Thunder Balloons Limited AX7-77 (serial 022, cancelled July 11, 1989). 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 N38AC. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data