American Champion Super Decathlon

The American Champion Super Decathlon is the 180 horsepower version of the model 8KCAB, a two-seat fixed conventional gear light airplane built for flight training, aerobatic instruction and personal flying and capable of sustaining aerobatic stresses between plus 6 g and minus 5 g. Bellanca moved from the original 150 horsepower Decathlon to the Super Decathlon during 1976, with a Lycoming AEIO-360-H1A or H1B engine and a constant speed propeller, and built over 600 of the 8KCAB design before its assets were liquidated. American Champion brought the Super Decathlon back into production in 1990 with the AEIO-360-H1B and still builds it. Steve Fossett was flying a Bellanca-built Super Decathlon when he went missing in 2007.