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A American Champion Aircraft 7 Citabria and Champ, the same model family as N308TA
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026
N308TA

American Champion Aircraft 7GCAA

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesTexas
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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.

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Aircraft

Maker
American Champion Aircraft
Model
7GCAA · all 7GCAAs and related versions
Built of
steel tube and fabric
The 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
453-2000
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
2001
Transponder code
A33EB4 (octal 50637264)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
December 11, 2024
Expires
December 31, 2031
Last FAA action
April 4, 2025
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; AcrobaticFAA certificate purpose code NA (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 9, 2024
FAA region
SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00393785

Owner as the FAA publishes it

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

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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

Connections how N308TA links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
  • Trinity Aviation LLC 4 aircraft registered to this organisation
  • Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · expired
Place
Record
Airworthiness
Analytics
Live

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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.

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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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search

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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data