Champion 7GC
N621E is a Champion 7GC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Saint James, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 21, 2026 and expires on March 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 25, 2004.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Champion
- Model
- 7GC · all 7GCs and related versions
- Serial number
- 7-GC-46
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- A81A58 (octal 52015130)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 21, 2026
- Expires
- March 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- March 21, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 25, 2004
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00090345
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hofstetter Michael T
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 18065 State Route Dd
Saint James, MO 65559-8138
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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N621E, 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 Hofstetter Michael T, an individual, certificate issued March 21, 2026, expires March 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 7-GC-46 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N621E was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Maximum Safety Airplane Co Inc M-2 (serial 2, cancelled January 16, 1930). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N621E: Accident on October 1, 2025 at Haskell, OK: minor 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 7GC · operated under 091
The pilot’s excessive braking during the landing roll, which resulted in a nose over. Contributing to the accident was the pilot’s lack of experience with the recently installed brakes and tundra tires.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN26LA002 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
