American Champion Aircraft 7GCBC
N342H is an American Champion Aircraft 7GCBC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1998. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Hamilton, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 8, 2019 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated July 24, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- American Champion Aircraft
- Model
- 7GCBC · all 7GCBCs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1245-98
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- A3C56B (octal 50742553)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 8, 2019
- Expires
- May 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Acrobatic · July 24, 1998
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00247091
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Trautman Michael
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- PO Box 454
Hamilton, MT 59840-0454 - Co-owners
- Trautman Judy
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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 N342H, 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 Trautman Michael, a co-owned, certificate issued May 8, 2019, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated July 24, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1245-98 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N342H 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 N342H: Accident on May 9, 2025 at Big Creek, ID: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). 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 7GCBC · operated under 091
On May 9, 2025, about 0900 mountain daylight time, an American Champion Aircraft 7GCBC, N342H, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Big Creek, Idaho. The pilot was fatally injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. According to a family member, the pilot was a hunter and had flown to many of the remote air strips around the area for pleasure. A witness located at the Big Creek airport (U60), Big Creek, Idaho, stated he observed the airplane land at the airport early that morning, and then heard the airplan…
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- 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