American Champion Aircraft 8GCBC
N97BC is an American Champion Aircraft 8GCBC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2008. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Saratoga, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 19, 2022 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 23, 2021.
Aircraft
- Maker
- American Champion Aircraft
- Model
- 8GCBC · all 8GCBCs and related versions
- Serial number
- 510-2008
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360-C1G · 180 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 2008
- Transponder code
- AD8168 (octal 53300550)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 19, 2022
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 23, 2021
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01011282
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Guy George Hopkins III
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 19725 Via Grande Dr
Saratoga, CA 95070-4455
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 N97BC, 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 Guy George Hopkins III, an individual, certificate issued March 19, 2022, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 23, 2021, 13 years after the 2008 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 510-2008 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N97BC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech H-18 (serial BA-730, cancelled May 24, 2013). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N97BC. 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 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