Champion 8KCAB
N77340 is a Champion 8KCAB, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1972. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Slikker Enterprises INC, a corporation in Bakersfield, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 22, 2014 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated April 12, 1972.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Champion
- Model
- 8KCAB · all 8KCABs 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. This is how the Champion 8 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
- 16-72
- 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 IO-320 SERIES · 150 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1972
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- AA7729 (octal 52473451)
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 22, 2014
- Expires
- December 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 7, 2023
- 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 · Normal; AcrobaticFAA certificate purpose code NA (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 12, 1972
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00703547
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Slikker Enterprises INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 11924 April Ann Ave
Bakersfield, CA 93312-4600
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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 N77340 links to the rest of the register
- Champion 8 5 registered
- Champion 1,603 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 IO-320 series 1,708 aircraft with this engine series · 150 hp
- Slikker Enterprises INC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Bakersfield, CA 372 aircraft registered in this town
- Meadows Field · BFL
- Bakersfield Municipal · L45
- California 27,673 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-320 series 30 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-320 series 43 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N77340, 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 Slikker Enterprises INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 22, 2014, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated April 12, 1972, consistent with the 1972 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 16-72 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N77340 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Interstate L-6 (serial 129, cancelled October 24, 1955). 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 N77340: Accident on December 11, 1982 at Lacon, IL: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-24-180 · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 29, 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 29, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data