American Champion Aircraft 7GCBC
N234RA is an American Champion Aircraft 7GCBC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2003. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Tom Eaton Consulting LLC, an LLC in West Sacramento, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 12, 2023 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated November 12, 2003.
Aircraft
- Maker
- American Champion Aircraft
- Model
- 7GCBC · all 7GCBCs and related versions
- Serial number
- 13512003
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2003
- Transponder code
- A218D4 (octal 50414324)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 12, 2023
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- April 25, 2026
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · Normal; AcrobaticFAA certificate purpose code NA (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 12, 2003
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00071149
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Tom Eaton Consulting LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
- Address
- 2792 Moonflower St
West Sacramento, CA 95691-5532
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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N234RA, 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 Tom Eaton Consulting LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 12, 2023, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated November 12, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 13512003 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N234RA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 550 (serial 5500561, cancelled October 15, 1998). 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]
2 NTSB records under N234RA: Accident on September 7, 2023 at Woodland, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on March 18, 2018 at Ontario, OR: no 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: American Champion Aircraft 7GCBC · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll, which resulted in a ground loop.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: American Champion Aircraft 7GCBC · operated under 091
The flight instructor's failure to maintain directional control during landing, in cross wind conditions.
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