American Champion Aircraft 7GCBC
N156RA is an American Champion Aircraft 7GCBC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2007. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Verona, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 17, 2017 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated July 7, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- American Champion Aircraft
- Model
- 7GCBC · all 7GCBCs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1429-2007
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-320-B2B · 160 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2007
- Transponder code
- A0E1F1 (octal 50160761)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 17, 2017
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Acrobatic · July 7, 2007
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00362429
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Case Bruce
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3600 Richie Rd
Verona, WI 53593-9650
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.
Earlier use of this number 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N156RA, 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.
Valid registration to Case Bruce, an individual, certificate issued February 17, 2017, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated July 7, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1429-2007 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N156RA was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 172R (serial 17280804, cancelled June 21, 2000); Wsk Pzl Mielec M-18A (serial 1Z01506, cancelled June 26, 1996). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
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]
1 NTSB record under N156RA: Accident on January 6, 2000 at Atlantic Ocean, AO: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Details below. [4]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172R · operated under 091
The pilot's lack of total experience in instrument flight, simulated instrument flight, and night flight resulting in the pilot becoming spatially disoriented, and subsequent in-flight collision with water. Contributing to the accident was the dark night with no visible horizon.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data