American Champion Aircraft 8KCAB
N538EE is an American Champion Aircraft 8KCAB, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2022. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Light Speed Air LLC, an LLC in Los Angeles, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 2, 2023 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated November 9, 2022. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
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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
- 1205-2022
- 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-H1B · 180 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2022
- Transponder code
- A6CE8E (octal 51547216)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 2, 2023
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- April 2, 2023
- 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 · Normal; UtilityFAA certificate purpose code NU (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 9, 2022
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01374053
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Light Speed Air LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 10102 Empyrean Way # 302
Los Angeles, CA 90067-3821
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 1
Connections how N538EE 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-H1B 124 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Light Speed Air LLC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Los Angeles, CA 387 aircraft registered in this town
- Los Angeles International · LAX
- Whiteman Airport · WHP
- 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-H1B 23 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming AEIO-360-H1B 8 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N538EE, 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 Light Speed Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 2, 2023, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated November 9, 2022, consistent with the 2022 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1205-2022 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N538EE according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (October 7, 2026). [3]
1 NTSB record under N538EE: Accident on May 2, 2025 at Mojave, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: American Champion Aircraft 8KCAB · operated under 091
The pilot’s exceedance of the airplane’s critical angle of attack during climb out from an aborted landing.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data