Champion 7GCBC
N5138X is a Champion 7GCBC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1969. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Montrose, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 5, 2025 and expires on March 31, 2032. It holds a special flight permit airworthiness certificate for ferry flight for repairs, alterations, maintenance or storage, dated June 11, 2002.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Champion
- Model
- 7GCBC · all 7GCBCs and related versions
- Serial number
- 159
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1969
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- A6701A (octal 51470032)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 5, 2025
- Expires
- March 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- March 5, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Special flight permit · Ferry flight for repairs, alterations, maintenance or storage · June 11, 2002
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00941435
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Koprek Kevin A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1530 Manchester Dr
Montrose, CO 81401-5662
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.
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The public federal record on N5138X, 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 Koprek Kevin A, an individual, certificate issued March 5, 2025, expires March 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 11, 2002, 33 years after the 1969 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 159 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5138X 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 N5138X: Accident on August 16, 1982 at Yuma, CO: 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: Bellanca 7GCBC · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN82DA165 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
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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