{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1966-10-26","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2005-11-02","city":"LIBBY","country_code":"US","county_code":"053","cruise_speed_mph":90,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41508","engine_horsepower":180,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"0-320 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-11-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-02-11","maker":"Champion","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CHAMPION","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2110168","mode_s_code":"53353052","mode_s_hex":"ADD62A","model":"AERONCA 7GCB","n_number":"N9908Y","name":"NICKERSON WILLIAM L","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"FAIRHOPE","damage":"SUBS","date":"1996-07-15","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"MIA96FA185","probable_cause":"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.","registration":"N9908Y","state":"AL","summary":"Accident on July 15, 1996 at Fairhope, AL: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"},{"city":"FRANKSTON","damage":"","date":"1991-09-20","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"FTW91LA163","probable_cause":"THE GROUND PERSON DID NOT UNDERSTAND THE VERBAL INSTRUCTIONS.","registration":"N9908Y","state":"TX","summary":"Accident on September 20, 1991 at Frankston, TX: fatal.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"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.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Nickerson William L, an individual, certificate issued November 2, 2005, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 122 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N9908Y according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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 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.","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":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"122","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MT","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"55 TALL TALE TRL","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00973490","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N9908Y","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1962,"zip":"599232343"}