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A American Champion Aircraft 8 Decathlon and Scout, the same model family as N814AC
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026
N814AC

American Champion Aircraft 8KCAB

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesCalifornia

N814AC is an American Champion Aircraft 8KCAB, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1998. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Alpine Aviation INC, a corporation in Grass Valley, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 4, 2023 and expires on July 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for acrobatic, dated August 27, 1998.

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Aircraft

Maker
American Champion Aircraft
Model
8KCAB · all 8KCABs and related versions
Built of
steel tube and fabric
The 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
814-98
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 SER · 180 hp
Seats
1
Year built
1998
Transponder code
AB183B (octal 52614073)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
July 4, 2023
Expires
July 31, 2030
Last FAA action
July 4, 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 · AcrobaticFAA certificate purpose code A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 27, 1998
FAA region
Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00613626

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Alpine Aviation 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
13310 Nevada City Ave
Grass Valley, CA 95945-9091

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Connections how N814AC links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
  • Alpine Aviation INC 77 aircraft in the fleet
  • Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · valid to August 9, 2027
Place
Live

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N814AC.json.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N814AC, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Alpine Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 4, 2023, expires July 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for acrobatic, dated August 27, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 814-98 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N814AC according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N814AC. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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