American Champion Aircraft 8KCAB
N53CC is an American Champion Aircraft 8KCAB, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1993. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Pcb Air LLC, an LLC in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 9, 2024 and expires on July 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated October 2, 1993.
Aircraft
- Maker
- American Champion Aircraft
- Model
- 8KCAB · all 8KCABs and related versions
- Serial number
- 720-93
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming AEIO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1993
- Transponder code
- A6AE49 (octal 51527111)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 9, 2024
- Expires
- July 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- July 9, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Acrobatic · October 2, 1993
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00074502
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Pcb Air LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1209 N Orange St
Wilmington, DE 19801-1120
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 · 3 clear
The public federal record on N53CC, 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 Pcb Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 9, 2024, expires July 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated October 2, 1993, consistent with the 1993 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 720-93 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N53CC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 550 (serial 5500400, cancelled July 19, 1990). 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 N53CC: Accident on October 2, 1989 at Hurdle Mills, NC: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). 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: Cessna 550 · operated under 091
IMPAIRMENT OF THE PILOT-IN-COMMAND (PIC) DUE TO DRUGS/MEDICATION, CHEMOTHERAPY AND FATIGUE; FAILURE OF THE PIC TO ASSURE THAT THE IFR (INSTRUMENT) APCH PROCEDURE WAS FOLLOWED; AND HIS FAILURE TO MAINTAIN THE MINIMUM DESCENT ALTITUDE (MDA). INADEQUATE SURVEILLANCE OF THE OPERATION BY COMPANY/OPERATOR/MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL WAS A RELATED FACTOR.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW90FA002 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