American Champion Aircraft 8GCBC
N445AC 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 co-owned owners in Kennebunk, Maine. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 19, 2016 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 22, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- American Champion Aircraft
- Model
- 8GCBC · all 8GCBCs and related versions
- Serial number
- 389-98
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-360-A1D · 180 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- A55D33 (octal 51256463)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 19, 2016
- Expires
- May 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · January 22, 1998
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00966971
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Tholen Susan M
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 2 Kimball Ln
Kennebunk, ME 04043-6037 - Co-owners
- Gary Stanley J
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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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N445AC, 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 Tholen Susan M, a co-owned, certificate issued May 19, 2016, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated January 22, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 389-98 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N445AC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Fairchild SA227-AC (serial AC445, cancelled June 12, 1992). 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]
1 NTSB record under N445AC: Accident on November 9, 1990 at Covington, KY: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Fairchild SA227-AC · operated under 091
THE PILOT-IN-COMMAND'S FAILURE TO EXTEND THE LANDING GEAR PRIOR TO TOUCHDOWN. CHECKRIDE-INDUCED PRESSURE WAS A CONTRIBUTING FACTOR, AND INADEQUATE SUPERVISION BY THE CHECK PILOT WAS A FACTOR.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for BFO91LA011 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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