American Champion Aircraft 8GCBC
N617MA is an American Champion Aircraft 8GCBC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2003. It has 3 seats. It is registered to As The Crow Flies LLC, an LLC in Belmont, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 17, 2017 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 14, 2003.
Aircraft
- Maker
- American Champion Aircraft
- Model
- 8GCBC · all 8GCBCs and related versions
- Serial number
- 444-2003
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 2003
- Transponder code
- A809D3 (octal 52004723)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 17, 2017
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 14, 2003
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00048489
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- As The Crow Flies LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 14127 Clayton Ln
Belmont, WI 53510-9605
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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 N617MA, 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 As The Crow Flies LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 17, 2017, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated June 14, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 444-2003 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N617MA 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 N617MA: Accident on June 17, 2005 at Phoenix, AZ: 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 (Acac) 8GCBC · operated under 091
the pilot's inadequate compensation for the wind conditions and failure to maintain directional control during the landing rollout.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX05CA211 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