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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- American Champion Aircraft
- Model
- 8GCBC · all 8GCBCs and related versions
- Serial number
- 531-2011
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-390-A1A6 · 210 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 2011
- Transponder code
- A71201 (octal 51611001)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 27, 2012
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 30, 2011
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01061588
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hawk Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 180 Zoar Valley Rd
Springville, NY 14141-9248
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 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]
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: 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.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for BFO94FA032 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