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A American Champion Aircraft 7 Citabria and Champ, the same model family as N59WD
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 26, 2026
N59WD

American Champion Aircraft 7GCBC

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesVirginia

N59WD is an American Champion Aircraft 7GCBC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2007. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Horner Michael W, a partnership in Manakin Sabot, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 29, 2025 and expires on January 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated February 9, 2007.

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Aircraft

Maker
American Champion Aircraft
Model
7GCBC · all 7GCBCs 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
1423-2007
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 O-320-B2B · 160 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2007
Transponder code
A79D06 (octal 51716406)

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 29, 2025
Expires
January 31, 2032
Last FAA action
January 29, 2025
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; UtilityFAA certificate purpose code NU (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · February 9, 2007
FAA region
EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00315429

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Horner Michael W
Type
PartnershipFAA type of owner code 2 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
1569 Devon Way
Manakin Sabot, VA 23103-2818
Co-owners
Spott Hollis P

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Connections how N59WD links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
Place
  • Manakin Sabot, VA 12 aircraft registered in this town
  • Virginia 5,974 aircraft registered

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N59WD.json.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N59WD, 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 Horner Michael W, a partnership, certificate issued January 29, 2025, expires January 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated February 9, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1423-2007 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N59WD 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N59WD. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

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 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data