American Champion Aircraft 8KCAB
N45MA is an American Champion Aircraft 8KCAB, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to R V Aviation LLC, an LLC in Thatcher, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 23, 2024 and expires on May 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated August 25, 2008.
Aircraft
- Maker
- American Champion Aircraft
- Model
- 8KCAB · all 8KCABs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1074-2008
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming AEIO-360-H1B · 180 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A570D7 (octal 51270327)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 23, 2024
- Expires
- May 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- May 23, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Acrobatic · August 25, 2008
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01011401
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- R V Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 3424 W 1St St
Thatcher, AZ 85552-5549
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 · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N45MA, 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 R V Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 23, 2024, expires May 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1074-2008 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N45MA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Smith AEROSTAR 601P (serial 61P-0454-175, cancelled June 19, 2006). 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 N45MA: Accident on November 27, 1988 at Fort Pierce, FL: 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: Piper PA-60-601P · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA89LA042 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