American Champion Aircraft 8GCBC
N63HE is an American Champion Aircraft 8GCBC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2004. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in White Bear Lake, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 19, 2025 and expires on August 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 25, 2011.
Where is it now Last seen yesterday at 11:28 am.
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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
- 452-2004
- 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 O-360-C1G · 180 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 2004
- Transponder code
- A83C17 (octal 52036027)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 19, 2025
- Expires
- August 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- August 19, 2025
- 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 · October 25, 2011
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01080618
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Skoog Rodney D
- 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
- 4881 Morehead Ave
White Bear Lake, MN 55110-2836
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.
Connections how N63HE links to the rest of the register
- American Champion Aircraft 8 Decathlon and Scout 674 registered
- American Champion Aircraft 1,103 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 O-360-C1G 141 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Type certificate A21CE · held by American Champion Aircraft CORP
- White Bear Lake, MN 27 aircraft registered in this town
- Minnesota 6,943 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 O-360-C1G 18 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-360-C1G 11 reports since 1995
- Where N63HE is now · Last seen yesterday at 11:28 am.
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The public federal record on N63HE, 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 Skoog Rodney D, an individual, certificate issued August 19, 2025, expires August 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 25, 2011, 7 years after the 2004 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 452-2004 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N63HE according to the deregistered file. [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 N63HE: Accident on March 10, 2014 at Chisago City, MN: minor injuries, substantial damage. 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: American Champion Aircraft 8GCBC · operated under 091
The unsuitable landing area encountered by the pilot due to wet soft snow conditions that resulted in a nose over.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 5, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data