American Champion Aircraft 7GCAA
N271MA is an American Champion Aircraft 7GCAA, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2003. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Earthbound Aviation Group LLC, an LLC in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 1, 2026 and expires on July 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated July 24, 2003.
Where is it now Last seen October 13 at 2:39 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- American Champion Aircraft
- Model
- 7GCAA · all 7GCAAs 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
- 475-2003
- 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 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2003
- Transponder code
- A2AB47 (octal 50525507)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 1, 2026
- Expires
- July 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- July 1, 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; UtilityFAA certificate purpose code NU (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 24, 2003
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00059439
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Earthbound Aviation Group LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 5305 Limestone Rd Ste 200
Wilmington, DE 19808-1247
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 N271MA 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
- Lycoming O-320 series 27,313 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Earthbound Aviation Group LLC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Wilmington, DE 7,373 aircraft registered in this town
- New Castle Airport · ILG
- Delaware 10,952 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 Lycoming O-320 series 29 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-320 series 349 reports since 1995
- Where N271MA is now · Last seen October 13 at 2:39 pm.
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The public federal record on N271MA, 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 Earthbound Aviation Group LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 1, 2026, expires July 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated July 24, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 475-2003 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N271MA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mitsubishi MU-2B-60 (serial 797SA, cancelled December 1, 1994). 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 N271MA: Accident on November 17, 1988 at Chicago, IL: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Accident on July 3, 1987 at Kansas City, MO: 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.
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NTSB records 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Mitsubishi MU-2B-60 · operated under 135
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Aircraft on the NTSB record: Mitsubishi MU-2B-60 · operated under 091
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