Champion 7GCB
N8978R is a Champion 7GCB, 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 Wray, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 7, 2000 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated June 3, 1960.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Champion
- Model
- 7GCB · all 7GCBs and related versions
- Serial number
- 7GCB-11
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C65 SERIES · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1960
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- AC62D5 (octal 53061325)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 7, 2000
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · June 3, 1960
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00601541
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Roth Robin A
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 1011 King St
Wray, CO 80758-2014 - Co-owners
- Roth Carmen R
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.
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The public federal record on N8978R, 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 Roth Robin A, a co-owned, certificate issued March 7, 2000, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated June 3, 1960, consistent with the 1960 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 7GCB-11 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8978R 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 N8978R: Accident on May 15, 1989 at Copalis Beach, WA: 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 7GCB · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO PERFORM THE NECESSARY PREFLIGHT PLANNING AND PREPARATION WHICH RESULTED IN THE SELECTION OF UNSUITABLE TERRAIN FOR LANDING. CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACCIDENT WAS THE SOFT SAND BAR.
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 September 30, 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