American Champion Aircraft 8GCBC
N391AC is an American Champion Aircraft 8GCBC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 3 seats. It is registered to American Champion Aircraft CORP, a corporation in Rochester, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on and expires on . It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 18, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- American Champion Aircraft
- Model
- 8GCBC · all 8GCBCs and related versions
- Serial number
- 400-98
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P&W PT6A SERIES · 500 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1979
- Transponder code
- A48683 (octal 51103203)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- December 4, 1998
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · October 18, 1979
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00823896
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- American Champion Aircraft CORP
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 37
Rochester, WI 53167-0037
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.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N391AC, 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 American Champion Aircraft CORP, a corporation, certificate issued , expires date not given. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated October 18, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 400-98 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N391AC 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 N391AC. 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