American Champion Aircraft 7GCAA
N2540F is an American Champion Aircraft 7GCAA, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1965. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Mcguires Flying Service LLC, an LLC in Obion, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 5, 2024 and expires on January 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated November 8, 2000.
Aircraft
- Maker
- American Champion Aircraft
- Model
- 7GCAA · all 7GCAAs and related versions
- Serial number
- 96
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1965
- Transponder code
- A268B8 (octal 50464270)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 5, 2024
- Expires
- January 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- January 5, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Acrobatic · November 8, 2000
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00603002
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mcguires Flying Service LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 3499 Jim Carver Rd
Obion, TN 38240-4437
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N2540F, 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 Mcguires Flying Service LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 5, 2024, expires January 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 8, 2000, 35 years after the 1965 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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 96 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N2540F according to the deregistered file. [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 N2540F: Accident on January 16, 2017 at Bainbridge, GA: 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: American Champion Aircraft 7GCAA · operated under 091
The student pilot's exceedance of the airplane’s critical angle of attack during final approach, which resulted in an aerodynamic stall, and his subsequent loss of directional control after touchdown.
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 August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data