American Champion Aircraft 8GCBC
N280MA is an American Champion Aircraft 8GCBC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2004. It has 3 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Essex, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 28, 2021 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 26, 2004.
Aircraft
- Maker
- American Champion Aircraft
- Model
- 8GCBC · all 8GCBCs and related versions
- Serial number
- 4552004
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 2004
- Transponder code
- A2CF0F (octal 50547417)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 28, 2021
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 26, 2004
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00091549
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mcgarity Daniel Scott
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 24354 County Road 702
Essex, MO 63846-7101 - Co-owners
- Mcgarity Vanassa
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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 N280MA, 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 Mcgarity Daniel Scott, a co-owned, certificate issued January 28, 2021, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated March 26, 2004, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4552004 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N280MA 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]
2 NTSB records under N280MA: Accident on April 2, 1997 at Atlantic City, NJ: minor injuries, substantial damage. Accident on September 30, 1989 at Bemidji, MN: 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: Fokker F-27 · operated under 121
Failure of the driver of the van to set the parking brake before exiting the van.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for IAD97LA057 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Fokker F27 · operated under 121
THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN A PROPER DESCENT RATE AND COMPENSATE FOR THE DOWNDRAFT ENCOUNTERED WHILE ON SHORT FINAL APPROACH.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MKC89FA202 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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