Champion 7GCBC
N9657S is a Champion 7GCBC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1966. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Scenic, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 22, 2023 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility; acrobatic, dated February 17, 1966.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Champion
- Model
- 7GCBC · all 7GCBCs and related versions
- Serial number
- 26
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1966
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- AD7217 (octal 53271027)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 22, 2023
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- February 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility; Acrobatic · February 17, 1966
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00164230
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- White Wayne A
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- PO Box 32
Scenic, SD 57780-0032 - Co-owners
- White Stacy A
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 N9657S, 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 White Wayne A, a co-owned, certificate issued February 22, 2023, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility; acrobatic, dated February 17, 1966, consistent with the 1966 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 26 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9657S 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 N9657S: Accident on September 12, 2004 at Mullen, NE: 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: Aeronca CHAMPION 7GCBC · operated under 091
the failure of the pilot to maintain direction control during gusty wind conditions on landing.
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
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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data