{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2013-08-22","airworthiness_ops":"Normal; Acrobatic","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2023-07-12","city":"NORTHAMPTON","country_code":"US","county_code":"015","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"42409","engine_horsepower":210,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"AEIO-390-A1B6","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-07-09","maker":"American Champion Aircraft","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"AMERICAN CHAMPION AIRCRAFT","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2121000","mode_s_code":"52070022","mode_s_hex":"A87012","model":"8KCAB","n_number":"N64273","name":"BACON ROBERT","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"ILIAMNA","damage":"DEST","date":"1993-08-31","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"ANC93FA161","probable_cause":"THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN AIRSPEED RESULTING IN AN INADVERTENT STALL. A FACTOR IN THE ACCIDENT WAS THE INADEQUATE RECURRENT TRAINING OF THE PILOT BY THE OPERATOR/MANAGEMENT.","registration":"N64273","state":"AK","summary":"Accident on August 31, 1993 at Iliamna, AK: fatal, destroyed (3 fatal).","type":"ACC"},{"city":"ILIAMNA","damage":"SUBS","date":"1989-09-01","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"ANC89LA154","probable_cause":"THE PILOT'S SELECTION OF UNSUITABLE TERRAIN FOR AN OFF-AIRPORT OPERATION.  FACTORS RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WERE: THE ADVERSE TERRAIN CONDITIONS.","registration":"N64273","state":"AK","summary":"Accident on September 1, 1989 at Iliamna, AK: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N64273 is an American Champion Aircraft 8KCAB, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2013. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Northampton, Massachusetts. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 12, 2023 and expires on July 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated August 22, 2013.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Bacon Robert, an individual, certificate issued July 12, 2023, expires July 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated August 22, 2013, consistent with the 2013 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1131-2013 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N64273 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Dehavilland BEAVER DHC-2 MK.1 (serial 897, cancelled January 14, 1998); Cessna T-50 (serial 4214, cancelled March 19, 1954). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"2 NTSB records under N64273: Accident on August 31, 1993 at Iliamna, AK: fatal, destroyed (3 fatal). Accident on September 1, 1989 at Iliamna, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"New England","region_code":"E","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"1131-2013","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"160 FERRY RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"01130071","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N64273","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2013,"zip":"01060"}