{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2017-07-18","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2024-10-02","city":"CLIFTON","country_code":"US","county_code":"075","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"42407","engine_horsepower":210,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"IO-390-A1B6","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2031-10-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2024-10-02","maker":"American Champion Aircraft","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"AMERICAN CHAMPION AIRCRAFT","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2121004","mode_s_code":"53313124","mode_s_hex":"AD9654","model":"8GCBC","n_number":"N975BC","name":"THOMPSEN DAVID","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Battle Creek","damage":"SUBS","date":"2001-02-13","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"CHI01LA092","probable_cause":"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.","registration":"N975BC","state":"MI","summary":"Accident on February 13, 2001 at Battle Creek, MI: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"},{"city":"BATTLE CREEK","damage":"SUBS","date":"2000-04-18","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"CHI00LA115","probable_cause":"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.","registration":"N975BC","state":"MI","summary":"Accident on April 18, 2000 at Battle Creek, MI: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"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.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Thompsen David, an individual, certificate issued October 2, 2024, expires October 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated July 18, 2017, consistent with the 2017 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 584-2017 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":3,"serial_number":"584-2017","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"IL","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"3139 N 1200 EAST RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"01252047","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N975BC","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2017,"zip":"609277074"}