American Champion Aircraft 8GCBC
N439MA is an American Champion Aircraft 8GCBC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2002. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Palmer, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 26, 2023 and expires on June 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 17, 2002.
Aircraft
- Maker
- American Champion Aircraft
- Model
- 8GCBC · all 8GCBCs and related versions
- Serial number
- 439-2002
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 2002
- Transponder code
- A545A1 (octal 51242641)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 26, 2023
- Expires
- June 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- August 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · October 17, 2002
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00000639
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Spotto Michael A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1150 S Colony Way Ste 3 Pmb 207
Palmer, AK 99645-6972
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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N439MA, 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 Spotto Michael A, an individual, certificate issued June 26, 2023, expires June 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated October 17, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 439-2002 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N439MA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Fairchild SA227-AC (serial AC722, cancelled August 14, 1997). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N439MA: Accident on November 15, 2007 at Wasilla, AK: 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: American Champion (Acac) 8GCBC · operated under 091
The pilot's misjudged touchdown point during landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC08CA019 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
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