Champion 7GCB
N9997Y is a Champion 7GCB, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1964. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Thief River Falls, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 5, 2023 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated June 12, 1964.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Champion
- Model
- 7GCB · all 7GCBs and related versions
- Serial number
- 194
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1964
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- ADF776 (octal 53373566)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 5, 2023
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- April 20, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Acrobatic · June 12, 1964
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00703250
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lehrer James R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 16276 150Th St NE
Thief River Falls, MN 56701-8473
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 N9997Y, 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 Lehrer James R, an individual, certificate issued April 5, 2023, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated June 12, 1964, consistent with the 1964 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 194 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9997Y 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 N9997Y: Accident on September 5, 1983 at Danevang, TX: serious injuries, destroyed. 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: Champion 7GCB · operated under 091
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