American Champion Aircraft 8GCBC
N81BH is an American Champion Aircraft 8GCBC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2011. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Cedar Key, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 18, 2024 and expires on March 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 7, 2011.
Aircraft
- Maker
- American Champion Aircraft
- Model
- 8GCBC · all 8GCBCs and related versions
- Serial number
- 542-2011
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360-C1G · 180 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 2011
- Transponder code
- AB0724 (octal 52603444)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 18, 2024
- Expires
- March 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- March 18, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · July 7, 2011
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 01070850
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Palmer Robert E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 519
Cedar Key, FL 32625-0519
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 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N81BH, 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 Palmer Robert E, an individual, certificate issued March 18, 2024, expires March 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated July 7, 2011, consistent with the 2011 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 542-2011 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N81BH was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Beech 58 (serial TH-768, cancelled May 5, 2008); Huseth Bernard H KR-2 (serial 100, cancelled May 11, 1990). 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 N81BH: Accident on September 11, 2020 at Ozark, AR: minor 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: Champion 8GCBC · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain clearance from a wire during final approach to landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN20CA391 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