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A American Champion Aircraft 8 Decathlon and Scout, the same model family as N848AC
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 28, 2026
N848AC

American Champion Aircraft 8GCBC

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesSouth Dakota

N848AC is an American Champion Aircraft 8GCBC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2024. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Pierre, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 5, 2024 and expires on November 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 16, 2024.

Where is it now Last seen October 18 at 11:32 am.

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Aircraft

Maker
American Champion Aircraft
Model
8GCBC · all 8GCBCs 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
643-2024
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 IO-390-A1B6 · 210 hp
Seats
3
Year built
2024
Transponder code
AB9D94 (octal 52716624)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
November 5, 2024
Expires
November 30, 2031
Last FAA action
November 5, 2024
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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 16, 2024
FAA region
Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01459942

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Ogan Michael J
Type
IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
30360 e Highway 34
Pierre, SD 57501-5932

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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

2013-06-07Cessna 182 · Registration expired, pending cancellation

Connections how N848AC links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
  • Lycoming IO-390-A1B6 47 aircraft with this engine series · 210 hp
  • Type certificate A21CE · held by American Champion Aircraft CORP
Place
Live

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N848AC.json.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N848AC, 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 Ogan Michael J, an individual, certificate issued November 5, 2024, expires November 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated September 16, 2024, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 643-2024 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N848AC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 182 (serial 18263151, cancelled June 7, 2013). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N848AC. 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 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 28, 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 28, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data