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N308TA

American Champion Aircraft 7GCAA

Valid Texas

N308TA is an American Champion Aircraft 7GCAA, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2001. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Trinity Aviation LLC, an LLC in Georgetown, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 11, 2024 and expires on December 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated April 9, 2024.

Aircraft

Maker
American Champion Aircraft
Model
7GCAA · all 7GCAAs and related versions
Serial number
453-2000
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2001
Transponder code
A33EB4 (octal 50637264)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
December 11, 2024
Expires
December 31, 2031
Last FAA action
April 4, 2025
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Acrobatic · April 9, 2024
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00393785

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Trinity Aviation LLC
Type
LLC
Address
212 Stearman Dr
Georgetown, TX 78628-2321

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 2

2017-05-31Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecna P2002 SIERRA · Registration expired, pending cancellation
2001-12-27Boeing 737-81Q · exported to Spain · Valid registration

Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N308TA, 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 Trinity Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 11, 2024, expires December 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 9, 2024, 23 years after the 2001 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 453-2000 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N308TA was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecna P2002 SIERRA (serial 428, cancelled May 31, 2017); Boeing 737-81Q (serial 30785, cancelled December 27, 2001). 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 N308TA: Accident on June 30, 2012 at Watsonville, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. 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

WPR12LA281Accident on June 30, 2012 at Watsonville, CA: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 428

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Tecnam P2002 SIERRA · operated under 091

A partial loss of engine power during initial climb due to the blockage of the carburetor’s main jet by deteriorated float material. Contributing to the accident was an inadequate maintenance inspection by maintenance personnel.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR12LA281 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 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