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N50LR

American Champion Aircraft 8KCAB

N50LR is an American Champion Aircraft 8KCAB, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1995. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Hester Truck Sales INC, a corporation in Bladenboro, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 11, 2014 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated June 9, 1995.

Aircraft

Maker
American Champion Aircraft
Model
8KCAB · all 8KCABs and related versions
Serial number
749-95
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming AEIO-360 SER · 180 hp
Seats
1
Year built
1995
Transponder code
A638A1 (octal 51434241)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 11, 2014
Expires
June 30, 2027
Last FAA action
January 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Acrobatic · June 9, 1995
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00345312

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Hester Truck Sales INC
Type
Corporation
Address
PO Box 403
Bladenboro, NC 28320-0403

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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 N50LR, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Hester Truck Sales INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 11, 2014, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated June 9, 1995, consistent with the 1995 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 749-95 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N50LR according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N50LR. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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