Champion 7GCB
N9971Y is a Champion 7GCB, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1963. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Gainesville, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 2, 2023 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated July 11, 1963.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Champion
- Model
- 7GCB · all 7GCBs and related versions
- Serial number
- 7GCB-182
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1963
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- ADEF36 (octal 53367466)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 2, 2023
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- April 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control · July 11, 1963
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00783330
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Schad Tom J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2961 Fm 1630
Gainesville, TX 76240-1225
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N9971Y, 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 Schad Tom J, an individual, certificate issued April 2, 2023, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Multiple certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated July 11, 1963, consistent with the 1963 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 7GCB-182 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9971Y 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N9971Y. 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 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