American Champion Aircraft 8GCBC
N975BC is an American Champion Aircraft 8GCBC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2017. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Clifton, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 2, 2024 and expires on October 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 18, 2017.
Aircraft
- Maker
- American Champion Aircraft
- Model
- 8GCBC · all 8GCBCs and related versions
- Serial number
- 584-2017
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-390-A1B6 · 210 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 2017
- Transponder code
- AD9654 (octal 53313124)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 2, 2024
- Expires
- October 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- October 2, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · July 18, 2017
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01252047
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Thompsen David
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3139 N 1200 East Rd
Clifton, IL 60927-7074
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N975BC, 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 Thompsen David, an individual, certificate issued October 2, 2024, expires October 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated July 18, 2017, consistent with the 2017 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 584-2017 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N975BC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172R (serial 17280046, cancelled March 27, 2012). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]
2 NTSB records under N975BC: Accident on February 13, 2001 at Battle Creek, MI: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on April 18, 2000 at Battle Creek, MI: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172R · operated under 091
Aircraft control not maintained by the student pilot during the takeoff roll. Factors to the accident were the student pilot's lack of experience and the snowbank.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172R · operated under 091
the student pilot's failure to maintain directional control of the airplane during the landing. Factors associated with the accident were the misjudged landing flare, the student's lack of total experience, the runway lights, and the runway signs.
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
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