American Champion Aircraft 8GCBC
N780DM 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 Texas Barnstormers LLC, an LLC in Rogers, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 26, 2024 and expires on September 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 2, 2004.
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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
- 464-2004
- 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 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 2004
- Transponder code
- AA90DD (octal 52510335)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 26, 2024
- Expires
- September 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- September 26, 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 · December 2, 2004
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00134399
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Texas Barnstormers LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 17060 New Colony Rd
Rogers, TX 76569-3717
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 N780DM links to the rest of the register
- American Champion Aircraft 8 Decathlon and Scout 671 registered
- American Champion Aircraft 1,100 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 series 1,067 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Type certificate A21CE · held by American Champion Aircraft CORP
- Texas Barnstormers LLC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Rogers, TX 10 aircraft registered in this town
- Texas 29,911 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 series 25 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-360 series 425 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N780DM, 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 Texas Barnstormers LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 26, 2024, expires September 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 2, 2004, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 464-2004 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N780DM was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mosher Donald R PDQ-2D (serial 78001, cancelled November 10, 1997). 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 N780DM. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data