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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- American Champion Aircraft
- Model
- 8KCAB · all 8KCABs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1055-2007
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming AEIO-360-H1B · 180 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2007
- Transponder code
- A9502D (octal 52250055)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 10, 2012
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Acrobatic · December 14, 2007
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00435739
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Skyshoe III LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 138 Conant St
Beverly, MA 01915-1665
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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
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.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA12CA220 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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