American Champion Aircraft 8GCBC
N561DM is an American Champion Aircraft 8GCBC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Jonesville, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 1, 2022 and expires on December 31, 2029. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
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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
- 428-2001
- 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
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A72AF8 (octal 51625370)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 1, 2022
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00373784
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Morgan John
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 4005 Parhams Rd
Jonesville, LA 71343-4749
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 1
Connections how N561DM links to the rest of the register
- American Champion Aircraft 8 Decathlon and Scout 672 registered
- American Champion Aircraft 1,101 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Type certificate A21CE · held by American Champion Aircraft CORP
- Jonesville, LA 8 aircraft registered in this town
- Jonesville Airport · L32
- Louisiana 3,735 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
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N561DM.json.
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The public federal record on N561DM, 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 Morgan John, an individual, certificate issued December 1, 2022, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 428-2001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N561DM according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (October 6, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N561DM. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 28, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data