American Champion Aircraft 8GCBC
N555AC is an American Champion Aircraft 8GCBC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2011. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Hawk Aviation LLC, an LLC in Springville, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 27, 2012 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 30, 2011.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- American Champion Aircraft
- Model
- 8GCBC · all 8GCBCs 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
- 531-2011
- 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 IO-390-A1A6 · 210 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 2011
- Transponder code
- A71201 (octal 51611001)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 27, 2012
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 30, 2011
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01061588
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hawk Aviation 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
- 180 Zoar Valley Rd
Springville, NY 14141-9248
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N555AC links to the rest of the register
- American Champion Aircraft 8 Decathlon and Scout 673 registered
- American Champion Aircraft 1,102 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 IO-390-A1A6 21 aircraft with this engine series · 210 hp
- Type certificate A21CE · held by American Champion Aircraft CORP
- Hawk Aviation LLC 10 aircraft in the fleet
- Springville, NY 19 aircraft registered in this town
- New York 6,661 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 IO-390-A1A6 5 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-390-A1A6 5 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N555AC, 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 Hawk Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 27, 2012, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated August 30, 2011, consistent with the 2011 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 531-2011 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N555AC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech 58 (serial TH-12, cancelled May 19, 2007). 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 N555AC: Accident on January 27, 1994 at Newtown, OH: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beech BE-58 · operated under 135
FAILURE OF THE PILOT TO MAINTAIN CONTROL OF THE AIRCRAFT AFTER BECOMING SPATIALLY DISORIENTATED IN NIGHT INSTRUMENT METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS (IMC). FACTORS RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WERE: THE PILOT'S LACK OF EXPERIENCE IN THE TYPE OF OPERATION, HIS LACK OF RECENT INSTRUMENT EXPERIENCE, AND INADEQUATE SURVEILLANCE OF THE OPERATION BY THE CHIEF PILOT/COMPANY MANAGEMENT.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data