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N778AC

American Champion Aircraft 8GCBC

Valid Arizona

N778AC is an American Champion Aircraft 8GCBC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1997. It has 3 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Willcox, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 20, 2022 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 6, 1997.

Aircraft

Maker
American Champion Aircraft
Model
8GCBC
Serial number
381-97
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-360-A1D · 180 hp
Seats
3
Year built
1997
Transponder code
AA86C2 (octal 52503302)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 20, 2022
Expires
October 31, 2029
Last FAA action
September 9, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · May 6, 1997
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00046401

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Schaefer Timothy R
Type
Co-owned
Address
PO Box 968
Willcox, AZ 85644-0968
Co-owners
Schaefer Lisa C

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.

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data