American Champion Aircraft 7GCAA
N497AC is an American Champion Aircraft 7GCAA, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2005. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Swest Properties LLC, an LLC in Carson City, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 22, 2015 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated July 14, 2006.
Aircraft
- Maker
- American Champion Aircraft
- Model
- 7GCAA · all 7GCAAs and related versions
- Serial number
- 497-2005
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Superior O-360 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2005
- Transponder code
- A62A1C (octal 51425034)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 22, 2015
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Acrobatic · July 14, 2006
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00177279
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Swest Properties LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1805 N Carson St # 470
Carson City, NV 89701-1216
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 N497AC, 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 Swest Properties LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 22, 2015, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated July 14, 2006, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 497-2005 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N497AC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 208B (serial 208B0497, cancelled April 24, 2001). 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 N497AC: Accident on November 15, 2011 at Baker, CA: 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 Aircraft 7GCAA · operated under 091
The pilot's delayed decision to perform an aborted landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR12CA043 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