American Champion Aircraft 8KCAB
N917AX is an American Champion Aircraft 8KCAB, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2026. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Weston, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 1, 2026 and expires on September 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated June 2, 2026.
Aircraft
- Maker
- American Champion Aircraft
- Model
- 8KCAB · all 8KCABs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1233-2026
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming AEIO-360-H1B · 180 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2026
- Transponder code
- ACB0C2 (octal 53130302)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 1, 2026
- Expires
- September 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- September 1, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Acrobatic · June 2, 2026
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01554289
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gast Matthew Adam
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 4502 Estate Dr
Weston, WI 54476-2070 - Co-owners
- Gast Karin Lee
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 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N917AX, 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 Gast Matthew Adam, a co-owned, certificate issued September 1, 2026, expires September 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated June 2, 2026, consistent with the 2026 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1233-2026 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N917AX was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Nihon YS-11A-500 (serial 2077, cancelled June 18, 2003). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N917AX. 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 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
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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data