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A American Champion Aircraft 8 Decathlon and Scout, the same model family as N86RA
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026
N86RA

American Champion Aircraft 8KCAB

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesFlorida

N86RA is an American Champion Aircraft 8KCAB, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2003. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Acrodocs LLC, an LLC in Tallahassee, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 20, 2006 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated July 11, 2003.

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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
925-2003
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
2003
Transponder code
ABCDF6 (octal 52746766)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
April 20, 2006
Expires
June 30, 2027
Last FAA action
January 22, 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; UtilityFAA certificate purpose code NU (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 11, 2003
FAA region
SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00044959

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Acrodocs 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
3839 Bobbin Brook Cir
Tallahassee, FL 32312-1219

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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

1999-10-29Swearingen SA226TC · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Connections how N86RA links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
Place
Live

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Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N86RA, 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 Acrodocs LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 20, 2006, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated July 11, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 925-2003 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N86RA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Swearingen SA226TC (serial TC217, cancelled October 29, 1999). 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 N86RA. 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