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N987A, a American Champion Aircraft 8KCAB
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026
N987A

American Champion Aircraft 8KCAB

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesNew York

N987A 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 Nf County Flying Club INC, a corporation in Chateaugay, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 7, 2025 and expires on November 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated June 2, 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
921-2003
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
ADC525 (octal 53342445)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
November 7, 2025
Expires
November 30, 2032
Last FAA action
November 7, 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; UtilityFAA certificate purpose code NU (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 2, 2003
FAA region
EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00045229

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Nf County Flying Club INC (flying club: its whole fleet and safety record)
Type
CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
145 Jones Rd
Chateaugay, NY 12920-3721

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Connections how N987A links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
Place
  • Chateaugay, NY 4 aircraft registered in this town
  • New York 6,669 aircraft registered

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N987A.json.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N987A, 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 Nf County Flying Club INC, a corporation, certificate issued November 7, 2025, expires November 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated June 2, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 921-2003 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N987A according to the deregistered file. [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 N987A. 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