American Champion Aircraft 8KCAB
N862AC is an American Champion Aircraft 8KCAB, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2000. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Madelaire LLC, an LLC in Bow, New Hampshire. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 2, 2016 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated June 8, 2000.
Where is it now Last seen October 10 at 2:43 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- American Champion Aircraft
- Model
- 8KCAB · all 8KCABs and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe 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
- 862-2000
- 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
- 2000
- Transponder code
- ABD648 (octal 52753110)
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 2, 2016
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 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 · Normal; AcrobaticFAA certificate purpose code NA (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 8, 2000
- FAA region
- New EnglandFAA region code E (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00685760
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Madelaire LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 17 Stack Dr
Bow, NH 03304-4708
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N862AC links to the rest of the register
- American Champion Aircraft 8 Decathlon and Scout 671 registered
- American Champion Aircraft 1,100 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming AEIO-360 series 884 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Madelaire LLC 3 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Bow, NH 7 aircraft registered in this town
- New Hampshire 1,555 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the American Champion Aircraft 8 Decathlon and Scout 24 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the American Champion Aircraft 8 Decathlon and Scout 105 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming AEIO-360 series 23 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming AEIO-360 series 30 reports since 1995
- Where N862AC is now · Last seen October 10 at 2:43 pm.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N862AC.json.
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The public federal record on N862AC, 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 Madelaire LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 2, 2016, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated June 8, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 862-2000 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N862AC according to the deregistered file. [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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N862AC. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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