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N5FN

American Champion Aircraft 7GCBC

Valid Indiana

N5FN is an American Champion Aircraft 7GCBC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2013. It has 2 seats. It is registered to M J S CORP, a corporation in Howe, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 11, 2015 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated February 5, 2013.

Aircraft

Maker
American Champion Aircraft
Model
7GCBC · all 7GCBCs and related versions
Serial number
1468-2012
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-320-B2B · 160 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2013
Transponder code
A635C8 (octal 51432710)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 11, 2015
Expires
March 31, 2028
Last FAA action
April 28, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Acrobatic · February 5, 2013
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
01115786

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
M J S CORP
Type
Corporation
Address
5160 N 100 W
Howe, IN 46746-9432

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

2007-01-23Piper PA-28-140 · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N5FN, 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 M J S CORP, a corporation, certificate issued March 11, 2015, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated February 5, 2013, consistent with the 2013 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1468-2012 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N5FN was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-140 (serial 28-7625005, cancelled January 23, 2007). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N5FN: Accident on October 15, 2005 at Everett, WA: fatal, destroyed (3 fatal). Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

SEA06FA007Accident on October 15, 2005 at Everett, WA: fatal, destroyed (3 fatal).serial on NTSB record: 28-7625005

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-28-140 · operated under 091

The pilot's inadequate airspeed during his aborted landing takeoff/climb which lead to a series of stall/mushes and subsequent impact with trees. Contributing factors were the pilot's loss of aircraft control during his initial landing approach and his immediate departure from the runway after touching down, his aborted landing attempt and subsequent impact with an airport sign, and the trees.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA06FA007 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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