Champion 7GC
N8947R is a Champion 7GC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1960. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Hettinger, North Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 25, 2021 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated February 12, 1960.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Champion
- Model
- 7GC · all 7GCs and related versions
- Serial number
- 7GC163
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-290 SERIES · 140 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1960
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- AC578D (octal 53053615)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 25, 2021
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · February 12, 1960
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00721611
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Upton Chris M
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 406 8Th St NW
Hettinger, ND 58639-9560 - Co-owners
- Upton Joan L
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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 N8947R, 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 Upton Chris M, a co-owned, certificate issued January 25, 2021, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated February 12, 1960, consistent with the 1960 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 7GC163 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8947R 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 N8947R: Accident on June 14, 1993 at Gillette, WY: 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: Champion 7GC · operated under 091
THE PILOT IN COMMAND'S NOT MAINTAINING DIRECTIONAL CONTROL AND THE OVERLOAD OF THE LEFT MAIN LANDING GEAR. A FACTOR CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACCIDENT WAS THE PILOT'S LACK OF EXPERIENCE IN CONVENTIONALLY GEARED AIRCRAFT.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data