American Champion Aircraft 7GCBC
N66CD is an American Champion Aircraft 7GCBC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1996. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Kcsi Aerial Patrol INC, a corporation in Bakersfield, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 4, 2024 and expires on April 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated March 4, 1996.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- American Champion Aircraft
- Model
- 7GCBC · all 7GCBCs 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. Metal wing spars on American Champion production. This is how the American Champion Aircraft 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
- 1215-96
- 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
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1996
- Transponder code
- A8B216 (octal 52131026)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 4, 2024
- Expires
- April 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- April 4, 2024
- 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 · Normal; AcrobaticFAA certificate purpose code NA (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 4, 1996
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00545841
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kcsi Aerial Patrol INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1105 Douglas St Ste 200
Bakersfield, CA 93308-1659
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N66CD links to the rest of the register
- American Champion Aircraft 7 Citabria and Champ 429 registered
- American Champion Aircraft 1,100 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 27,313 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Kcsi Aerial Patrol INC 38 aircraft in the fleet
- Bakersfield, CA 374 aircraft registered in this town
- Meadows Field · BFL
- Bakersfield Municipal · L45
- California 27,610 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the American Champion Aircraft 7 Citabria and Champ 32 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the American Champion Aircraft 7 Citabria and Champ 202 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
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The public federal record on N66CD, 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 Kcsi Aerial Patrol INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 4, 2024, expires April 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated March 4, 1996, consistent with the 1996 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1215-96 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N66CD 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N66CD. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data