American Champion Aircraft 8KCAB
N7DF is an American Champion Aircraft 8KCAB, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2007. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Skyshoe III LLC, an LLC in Beverly, Massachusetts. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 10, 2012 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated December 14, 2007.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- American Champion Aircraft
- 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. 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
- 1055-2007
- 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 AEIO-360-H1B · 180 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2007
- Transponder code
- A9502D (octal 52250055)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 10, 2012
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 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 · December 14, 2007
- FAA region
- New EnglandFAA region code E (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00435739
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Skyshoe III 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
- 138 Conant St
Beverly, MA 01915-1665
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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 N7DF 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 AEIO-360-H1B 125 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Skyshoe III LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Beverly, MA 34 aircraft registered in this town
- Beverly Regional · BVY
- Massachusetts 2,646 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 AEIO-360-H1B 23 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming AEIO-360-H1B 8 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N7DF, 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 Skyshoe III LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 10, 2012, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated December 14, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1055-2007 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N7DF was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Glasflugel STD LIBELLE 201B (serial 238, cancelled November 4, 1992). 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 N7DF: Accident on March 4, 2012 at Beverly, MA: no 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 8KCAB · operated under 091
The pilot's loss of airplane control during takeoff, which resulted in a runway excursion.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 9, 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 9, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data