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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.
Where is it now Last seen October 18 at 8:56 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- American Champion Aircraft
- Model
- 7GCBC · all 7GCBCs and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. Metal wing spars on American Champion production. This is how the American Champion Aircraft 7 Citabria and Champ family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 1418-2006
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Superior O-360 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2006
- Transponder code
- A0ECE6 (octal 50166346)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 15, 2025
- Expires
- March 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- March 15, 2025
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Normal; AcrobaticFAA certificate purpose code NA (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 2, 2006
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00268679
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Aircraft Owners and Pilots Assoc
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 421 Aviation Way
Frederick, MD 21701-4756
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 1
Connections how N159PC links to the rest of the register
- American Champion Aircraft 7 Citabria and Champ 429 registered
- American Champion Aircraft 1,100 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Superior Air Parts O-360 series 92 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Aircraft Owners and Pilots Assoc 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Frederick, MD 100 aircraft registered in this town
- Frederick Municipal · FDK
- Maryland 2,344 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the American Champion Aircraft 7 Citabria and Champ 32 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the American Champion Aircraft 7 Citabria and Champ 202 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Superior Air Parts O-360 series 1 airworthiness directives
- Report filed on this aircraft: Smoke Detector, failed · 1997-10-27
- Report filed on this aircraft: Hyd Line, leaking · 1997-07-17
- Report filed on this aircraft: Valve, failed · 1997-06-23
- Where N159PC is now · Last seen October 18 at 8:56 am.
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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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data