Single-engine piston

N265CA

2004 American Champion 8-KCAB Xtreme Decathlon

Registered No accidents on file
Built
2004
Serial
965-2004
Class
Single-engine piston
Engines
Lycoming AEIO-360 series
Status
Current as of October 2026
Registered owner
Individual · sign in to see
Based
Indiana, PA
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Registration record

N265CA on the FAA register

Type
2004 American Champion 8-KCAB Xtreme Decathlon (FAA: American Champion Aircraft 8KCAB)
Serial
965-2004
Engines
Lycoming AEIO-360 series
Registered owner
Individual — the name of an individual registrant is shown to signed-in users. Sign in
Indiana, PA
Certificate issued
2007-09-20
Airworthiness date
2004-07-27
Registration expires
2028-07-31
Airworthiness class
Standard · normal
Mode S (hex)
A291C3
Mode S (octal)
50510703
Seats (type)
1
Weight class
up to 12,499 lb
Status
Current as of October 2026
Registry history

Timeline

  • 2028-07-31
    Registration expires (renewal due).
  • 2007-09-20
    Certificate of registration issued as N265CA to the current registrant.
  • 2004-07-27
    Airworthiness date on the current FAA record (standard category (normal)).
  • 2001-08-20
    N265CA previously assigned to a Embraer EMB-120RT (s/n 120.257); cancelled.
Overview

About N265CA

N265CA is a 2004 American Champion 8-KCAB Xtreme Decathlon (FAA model 8KCAB), serial number 965-2004. It is registered to an individual in Indiana, Pennsylvania. The current certificate of registration was issued on September 20, 2007 and expires on July 31, 2028.

The FAA aircraft reference file describes the type as a single-engine piston, one Lycoming AEIO-360 series engine and 1 seats. Its airworthiness certificate is standard category (normal), dated July 27, 2004.

No NTSB accident or incident reports and no FAA preliminary notices are on file for this airframe as N265CA. 1 earlier record involves a different aircraft that carried the same N-number.

Safety record

Accident & incident history

1997-01-09 Accident · Monroe, MI Damage: Destroyed Fatal injury NTSB · DCA97MA017
Reported aircraft: Embraer EMB-120RT — a different aircraft that carried the N265CA registration before this airframe.
Probable cause: The Federal Aviation Adminstration's (FAA) failure to establish adequate aircraft certification standards for flight in icing conditions, the FAA's failure to ensure that at Centro Tecnico Aeroespacial/FAA-approved procedure for the accident airplane's deice system operation was implemented by U.S.-based air carriers, and the FAA's failure to require the establishment of adequate minimum airspeeds for icing conditions, which led to the loss of control when the airplane accumulated a thin, rough, accretion of ice on its lifting surfaces. Contributing to the accident were the flightcrew's decision to operate in icing conditions near the lower margin of the operating airspeed envelope (with…

Sources: NTSB aviation accident database and CAROL case system, FAA preliminary accident & incident notices. Search accident records

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Data: FAA Aircraft Registry (October 2026), including deregistered aircraft; NTSB and FAA accident data; fyiAero listing history. Individual owners' names are shown to signed-in users and street addresses are never shown. Type figures are published specifications, not this aircraft's.