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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- American Champion Aircraft
- Model
- 8KCAB · all 8KCABs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1205-2022
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming AEIO-360-H1B · 180 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2022
- Transponder code
- A6CE8E (octal 51547216)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 2, 2023
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- April 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · November 9, 2022
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01374053
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Light Speed Air LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 10102 Empyrean Way # 302
Los Angeles, CA 90067-3821
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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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]
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 N538EE: Accident on May 2, 2025 at Mojave, CA: 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: 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.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR25LA149 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data