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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Champion
- Model
- 7GC · all 7GCs and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe 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. Wooden wing spars on older ones; metal spars on later production. This is how the Champion 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
- 7-GC-46
- 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 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- A81A58 (octal 52015130)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 21, 2026
- Expires
- March 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- March 21, 2026
- 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 25, 2004
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00090345
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hofstetter Michael T
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- 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
Connections how N621E links to the rest of the register
- Champion 7 Citabria and Champ 1,452 registered
- Champion 1,604 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-320 series 27,305 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Saint James, MO 11 aircraft registered in this town
- Missouri 5,815 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Champion 7 Citabria and Champ 9 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Champion 7 Citabria and Champ 2 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Champion 7 Citabria and Champ 157 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-320 series 29 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-320 series 349 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N621E.json.
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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]
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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.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 3, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data