American Champion Aircraft 8KCAB
N878AC is an American Champion Aircraft 8KCAB, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2001. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Decathlon LLC, an LLC in Herndon, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 24, 2014 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated March 15, 2001.
Aircraft
- Maker
- American Champion Aircraft
- Model
- 8KCAB · all 8KCABs and related versions
- Serial number
- 878-2001
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming AEIO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2001
- Transponder code
- AC1411 (octal 53012021)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 24, 2014
- Expires
- December 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Acrobatic · March 15, 2001
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00333674
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Decathlon LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 406 Madison St
Herndon, VA 20170-4503
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.
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The public federal record on N878AC, 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 Decathlon LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 24, 2014, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated March 15, 2001, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 878-2001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N878AC 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]
1 NTSB record under N878AC: Accident on September 10, 2011 at Leesburg, VA: 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: American Champion Aircraft 8KCAB · operated under 091
The pilot did not follow the engine start checklist.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA11CA488 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data