American Champion Aircraft 7GCBC
N159PC is an American Champion Aircraft 7GCBC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2006. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Aircraft Owners And Pilots Assoc, a corporation in Frederick, Maryland. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 15, 2025 and expires on March 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated August 2, 2006.
Aircraft
- Maker
- American Champion Aircraft
- Model
- 7GCBC · all 7GCBCs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1418-2006
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Superior O-360 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2006
- Transponder code
- A0ECE6 (octal 50166346)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 15, 2025
- Expires
- March 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- March 15, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Acrobatic · August 2, 2006
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00268679
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Aircraft Owners And Pilots Assoc
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 421 Aviation Way
Frederick, MD 21701-4756
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N159PC, 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 Aircraft Owners And Pilots Assoc, a corporation, certificate issued March 15, 2025, expires March 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated August 2, 2006, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1418-2006 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N159PC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: British Aerospace BAE JETSTREAM 3101 (serial 768, cancelled August 30, 2002). 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 N159PC: Accident on March 18, 1993 at Beckley, WV: minor injuries, substantial damage. 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: British Aerospace BAE 3101 · operated under 135
FAILURE OF THE CAPTAIN TO ASSURE PROPER ALIGNMENT WITH THE PLOWED PORTION OF THE RUNWAY (OR PERFORM A MISSED APPROACH). FACTORS RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WERE: DARKNESS, THE ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITION, INADEQUATE REMOVAL OF SNOW FROM THE RUNWAY WITH SNOW ALONG THE LEFT EDGE OF THE RUNWAY, AND THE LACK OF VISUAL CUES (PERCEPTION) FOR THE PILOT(S).
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