American Champion Aircraft 8KCAB
N685SM is an American Champion Aircraft 8KCAB, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2025. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Rochester, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 1, 2026 and expires on February 28, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated December 16, 2025.
Aircraft
- Maker
- American Champion Aircraft
- Model
- 8KCAB · all 8KCABs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1227-2026
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming AEIO-360-H1B · 180 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2025
- Transponder code
- A91766 (octal 52213546)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 1, 2026
- Expires
- February 28, 2033
- Last FAA action
- February 1, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Acrobatic · December 16, 2025
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01524353
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kendrick Michael L
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 1750 Century Valley Rd NE
Rochester, MN 55906-7651 - Co-owners
- Kendrick Susan K
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.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N685SM, 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 Kendrick Michael L, a co-owned, certificate issued February 1, 2026, expires February 28, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated December 16, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1227-2026 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N685SM 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N685SM. 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 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