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N97BC

American Champion Aircraft 8GCBC

N97BC is an American Champion Aircraft 8GCBC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2008. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Saratoga, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 19, 2022 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 23, 2021.

Aircraft

Maker
American Champion Aircraft
Model
8GCBC
Serial number
510-2008
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360-C1G · 180 hp
Seats
3
Year built
2008
Transponder code
AD8168 (octal 53300550)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 19, 2022
Expires
March 31, 2029
Last FAA action
July 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · March 23, 2021
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
01011282

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Guy George Hopkins III
Type
Individual
Address
19725 Via Grande Dr
Saratoga, CA 95070-4455

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.

Earlier use of this number 1

2013-05-24Beech H-18 · Registration expired, pending cancellation

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