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N552DM

American Champion Aircraft 8KCAB

Valid Missouri

N552DM is an American Champion Aircraft 8KCAB, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2005. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Redstone Aero LLC, an LLC in Chesterfield, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 16, 2021 and expires on November 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated March 28, 2005.

Aircraft

Maker
American Champion Aircraft
Model
8KCAB · all 8KCABs and related versions
Serial number
984-2005
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming AEIO-360 SER · 180 hp
Seats
1
Year built
2005
Transponder code
A70730 (octal 51603460)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
November 16, 2021
Expires
November 30, 2028
Last FAA action
August 30, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Acrobatic · March 28, 2005
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00151899

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Redstone Aero LLC
Type
LLC
Address
PO Box 930
Chesterfield, MO 63006-0930

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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 N552DM, 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 Redstone Aero LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 16, 2021, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated March 28, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 984-2005 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N552DM 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 N552DM. 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