American Champion Aircraft 8GCBC
N76BC is an American Champion Aircraft 8GCBC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2020. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Yackley Ranches, a partnership in Onida, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 4, 2024 and expires on June 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 8, 2020.
Where is it now Last seen Wednesday at 6:53 pm.
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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
- 606-2020
- 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
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2020
- Transponder code
- AA3F4B (octal 52437513)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 4, 2024
- Expires
- June 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- June 4, 2024
- 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 8, 2020
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01321070
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Yackley Ranches
- Type
- PartnershipFAA type of owner code 2 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 321
Onida, SD 57564-0321
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
Connections how N76BC 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 O-360-C1G 141 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Type certificate A21CE · held by American Champion Aircraft CORP
- Yackley Ranches 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Onida, SD 22 aircraft registered in this town
- Onida Municipal · 98D
- South Dakota 2,273 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 N76BC is now · Last seen Wednesday at 6:53 pm.
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The public federal record on N76BC, 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 Yackley Ranches, a partnership, certificate issued June 4, 2024, expires June 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated October 8, 2020, consistent with the 2020 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 606-2020 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N76BC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Jones BABY GREAT LAKES (serial 7215K-453-B, cancelled September 19, 2013). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N76BC. 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 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
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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data