American Champion Aircraft 7GCBC
N396BG is an American Champion Aircraft 7GCBC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Low and Slow Flyers LLC, an LLC in Urbandale, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 11, 2016 and expires on January 31, 2029. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Where is it now Last seen October 17 at 8:55 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- American Champion Aircraft
- Model
- 7GCBC · all 7GCBCs 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
- 1216-96
- 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
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A49933 (octal 51114463)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 11, 2016
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00525841
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Low and Slow Flyers LLC (flight school: its whole fleet and safety record)
- 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
- 15304 Brookview Dr
Urbandale, IA 50323-2522
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.
Connections how N396BG 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
- Low and Slow Flyers LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Urbandale, IA 31 aircraft registered in this town
- Iowa 4,503 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
- Where N396BG is now · Last seen October 17 at 8:55 am.
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The public federal record on N396BG, 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 Low and Slow Flyers LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 11, 2016, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1216-96 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N396BG 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 N396BG: Accident on May 29, 1996 at Des Moines, IA: 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Champion 7GCBC · operated under 091
the pilot's inadvertent use of the brakes which resulted in a loss of directional control. A factor associated with the accident was the ravine which the airplane traveled down.
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