American Champion Aircraft 8KCAB
N83DH is an American Champion Aircraft 8KCAB, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1997. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Garden City, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 6, 2011 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated January 6, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- American Champion Aircraft
- Model
- 8KCAB · all 8KCABs and related versions
- Serial number
- 786-96
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming AEIO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- AB5654 (octal 52653124)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 6, 2011
- Expires
- June 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Acrobatic · January 6, 1997
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00036201
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hansen Douglas M
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 16526 433Rd Ave
Garden City, SD 57236-5106
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 N83DH, 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 Hansen Douglas M, an individual, certificate issued June 6, 2011, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated January 6, 1997, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 786-96 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N83DH was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Dehavilland DH FOX MOTH 83 (serial 4097, cancelled date not given). 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]
2 NTSB records under N83DH: Accident on September 13, 2020 at Groton, SD: fatal, substantial damage (2 fatal). Accident on June 24, 2002 at Giddings, TX: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Champion 8KCAB · operated under 091
The pilot’s loss of airplane control during a low-altitude aerobatic maneuver.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN20LA389 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: American Champion (Acac) 8KCAB · operated under 091
the failure of the pilot to maintain aircraft control during the landing rollout. A contributing factor was the subsequent inadvertent ground loop of the airplane.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN02LA058 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