American Champion Aircraft 7GCBC
N715AC is an American Champion Aircraft 7GCBC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2004. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Corvallis, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 16, 2025 and expires on November 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated June 2, 2005. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Where is it now Last seen Saturday at 9:40 am.
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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
- 1360-2004
- 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
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2004
- Transponder code
- A98EA3 (octal 52307243)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 16, 2025
- Expires
- November 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- November 16, 2025
- 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 · June 2, 2005
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00112409
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lowther Fred
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 5060 SW Philomath Blvd Pmb 502
Corvallis, OR 97333-1044 - Co-owners
- Loewther Kathy
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 1
Connections how N715AC links to the rest of the register
- American Champion Aircraft 7 Citabria and Champ 429 registered
- American Champion Aircraft 1,102 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Corvallis, OR 112 aircraft registered in this town
- Corvallis Municipal · CVO
- Oregon 7,012 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
- Where N715AC is now · Last seen Saturday at 9:40 am.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N715AC.json.
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The public federal record on N715AC, 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 Lowther Fred, a co-owned, certificate issued November 16, 2025, expires November 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated June 2, 2005, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1360-2004 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N715AC according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (October 28, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N715AC. 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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data