American Champion Aircraft 8GCBC
N985BC is an American Champion Aircraft 8GCBC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2025. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Northwest Back Country Aircraft LLC, an LLC in Caldwell, Idaho. The registration is valid: it was issued on and expires on . It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 29, 2025.
Aircraft
- Maker
- American Champion Aircraft
- Model
- 8GCBC · all 8GCBCs and related versions
- Serial number
- 645-2025
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-390-A1B6 · 210 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2025
- Transponder code
- ADBDD3 (octal 53336723)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- May 19, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 29, 2025
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01493683
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Northwest Back Country Aircraft LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 4919 Aviation Way
Caldwell, ID 83607
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N985BC, 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 Northwest Back Country Aircraft LLC, an LLC, certificate issued , expires date not given. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated April 29, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 645-2025 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N985BC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Boeing A75N1(PT17) (serial 75-6711, cancelled May 24, 2010). 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 N985BC: Accident on September 26, 2006 at Garrettsville, OH: 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: Boeing A75N1 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during the takeoff roll. The bush and tree were factors to the accident.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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