Champion AERONCA 7GCB
N9908Y is a Champion AERONCA 7GCB, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1962. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Libby, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 2, 2005 and expires on November 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 26, 1966.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Champion
- Model
- AERONCA 7GCB · all AERONCA 7GCBs and related versions
- Serial number
- 122
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1962
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- ADD62A (octal 53353052)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 2, 2005
- Expires
- November 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- February 11, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · October 26, 1966
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00973490
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Nickerson William L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 55 Tall Tale Trl
Libby, MT 59923-2343
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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 N9908Y, 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 Nickerson William L, an individual, certificate issued November 2, 2005, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 26, 1966, 4 years after the 1962 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 122 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9908Y 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]
2 NTSB records under N9908Y: Accident on July 15, 1996 at Fairhope, AL: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). Accident on September 20, 1991 at Frankston, TX: fatal. 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: Champion AERONCA 7GCB · operated under 091
failure of the pilot to maintain adequate airspeed, while manuevering at low altitude, which resulted in an inadvertent stall and uncontrolled impact with the water. The pilot's ostentatious display and the lack of altitude to recover from a stall were related factors.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Champion 7-GCB · operated under 091
THE GROUND PERSON DID NOT UNDERSTAND THE VERBAL INSTRUCTIONS.
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