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A American Champion Aircraft 7 Citabria and Champ, the same model family as N43MT
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026
N43MT

American Champion Aircraft 7GCAA

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesNorth Carolina
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N43MT is an American Champion Aircraft 7GCAA, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1997. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Echo Tango LLC, an LLC in Greensboro, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 20, 2007 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated December 29, 1997.

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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
402-98
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
1997
Transponder code
A521EA (octal 51220752)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
March 20, 2007
Expires
October 31, 2029
Last FAA action
September 9, 2023
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 · December 29, 1997
FAA region
EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00686871

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Echo Tango 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
16 Linden Ln
Greensboro, NC 27410-2054

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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 N43MT, 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 Echo Tango LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 20, 2007, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated December 29, 1997, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 402-98 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N43MT according to the deregistered file. [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 N43MT: Accident on March 18, 2015 at Greensboro, NC: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

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NTSB records 1

GAA15CA017Accident on March 18, 2015 at Greensboro, NC: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: American Champion Aircraft 7GCAA · operated under 091

The pilot's failure to maintain directional/pitch control during final approach, resulting in a collision with terrain.

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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