Champion 7KCAB
N5BJ is a Champion 7KCAB, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1969. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Velva, North Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 26, 2014 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for other; aerial advertising, dated August 25, 1981.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Champion
- Model
- 7KCAB · all 7KCABs and related versions
- Serial number
- 187
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1969
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- A63560 (octal 51432540)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 26, 2014
- Expires
- November 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Other; Aerial advertising · August 25, 1981
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00820825
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Linrud Michael A
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 4891 Highway 41
Velva, ND 58790-9132 - Co-owners
- Linrud Lyle
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 N5BJ, 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 Linrud Michael A, a co-owned, certificate issued November 26, 2014, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 25, 1981, 12 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 187 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5BJ 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 N5BJ: Accident on July 5, 1991 at Berlin, MD: 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: Champion 7KCAB · operated under 091
THE UNSUITABLE PLACEMENT OF TWO BANNERS (IMPROPER PLANNING) BY OTHER PERSONNEL CAUSING AN UNINTENTIONAL PICKUP OF BOTH BANNERS.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for BFO91LA064 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