American Champion Aircraft 8KCAB
N89MM is an American Champion Aircraft 8KCAB, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Sic Sac Fliers LLC, an LLC in Gainesville, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 27, 2025 and expires on March 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated February 19, 2020.
Where is it now Last seen October 13 at 11:58 am.
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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
- 1185-2020
- 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-390-A1B6 · 210 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- AC441A (octal 53042032)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 27, 2025
- Expires
- March 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- March 27, 2025
- 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 · February 19, 2020
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01309317
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sic Sac Fliers 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
- 8681 SW 89Th Ln
Gainesville, FL 32608-7235
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 2
Connections how N89MM 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-390-A1B6 35 aircraft with this engine series · 210 hp
- Sic Sac Fliers LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Gainesville, FL 156 aircraft registered in this town
- Gainesville Regional · GNV
- Florida 21,706 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-390-A1B6 3 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming AEIO-390-A1B6 1 reports since 1995
- Where N89MM is now · Last seen October 13 at 11:58 am.
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The public federal record on N89MM, 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 Sic Sac Fliers LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 27, 2025, expires March 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1185-2020 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N89MM was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Combs Earl W KITFOX SPEEDSTER (serial HBS055, cancelled January 17, 2018); Matre Howard J KR-2 (serial 1, cancelled January 14, 1999). 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]
1 NTSB record under N89MM: Accident on May 1, 2011 at Elephant Butte, NM: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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: Combs Earl W KITFOX SPEEDSTER · operated under 091
The pilot's loss of control of the airplane for reasons that could not be determined because postaccident examination of the airplane did not reveal any anomalies that would have precluded normal operation.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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