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A Champion 7 Citabria and Champ, the same model family as N21262
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026
N21262

Champion 7GCBC

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesMinnesota
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N21262 is a Champion 7GCBC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1968. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Hermantown, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 14, 2026 and expires on March 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated March 7, 2009.

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Aircraft

Maker
Champion
Model
7GCBC · all 7GCBCs and related versions
Built of
steel tube and fabric
The 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. Wooden wing spars on older ones; metal spars on later production. This is how the Champion 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
130
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 · Lycoming O-320-B2B · 160 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1968
Cruising speed
90 mph
Transponder code
A1C435 (octal 50342065)

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 14, 2026
Expires
March 31, 2033
Last FAA action
March 14, 2026
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 · March 7, 2009
FAA region
Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00805011

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Aysta Nathan P
Type
IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
4210 Getchell Rd
Hermantown, MN 55811-1483

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

1988-05-12Cessna 172M · N-number assigned but not yet registered

Connections how N21262 links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Place
  • Hermantown, MN 21 aircraft registered in this town
  • Minnesota 6,933 aircraft registered
Record
Airworthiness
Analytics
Live

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N21262.json.

Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N21262, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Aysta Nathan P, an individual, certificate issued March 14, 2026, expires March 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 7, 2009, 41 years after the 1968 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 130 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N21262 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172M (serial 17263918, cancelled May 12, 1988). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N21262: Accident on July 23, 1998 at Clearwater, MN: minor injuries, destroyed. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

CHI98LA273Accident on July 23, 1998 at Clearwater, MN: minor injuries, destroyed.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Champion 7GCBC · operated under 091

The inadequate visual lookout by the pilot-in-command. The unmarked transmission wire was a contributing factor.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search

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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data