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N78MV

American Champion Aircraft 8KCAB

N78MV is an American Champion Aircraft 8KCAB, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1999. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Lenoir, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 16, 2014 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated June 22, 1999.

Aircraft

Maker
American Champion Aircraft
Model
8KCAB
Serial number
836-99
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming AEIO-360 SER · 180 hp
Seats
1
Year built
1999
Transponder code
AA8F54 (octal 52507524)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 16, 2014
Expires
October 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 24, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Acrobatic · June 22, 1999
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00035682

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Whittington Rankin A Trustee
Type
Co-owned
Address
2226 Nighthawk Ridge Ct
Lenoir, NC 28645-9107
Co-owners
Whittington Sandra S Trustee

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.

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data