Aeronca 7AC
N1079E is an Aeronca 7AC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1959. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Eastern Stearman INC Trustee, a corporation in Leesburg, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 26, 2012 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 25, 1959.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Aeronca
- Model
- 7AC · all 7ACs and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. Wooden wing spars on older Champs; metal spars since the 1990s rebuilds. This is how the Aeronca 7 Champion (Champ) family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 7AC-4632
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1959
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- A0224D (octal 50021115)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 26, 2012
- Expires
- March 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 25, 1959
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00140560
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Eastern Stearman INC Trustee
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 41665 Browns Farm Ln
Leesburg, VA 20176-6025
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N1079E links to the rest of the register
- Aeronca 7 Champion (Champ) 2,355 registered
- Aeronca 3,953 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Eastern Stearman INC Trustee 110 aircraft in the fleet
- Leesburg, VA 215 aircraft registered in this town
- Leesburg Executive · JYO
- Virginia 5,973 aircraft registered
- Approved modifications for the Aeronca 7 Champion (Champ) 13 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N1079E, 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 Eastern Stearman INC Trustee, a corporation, certificate issued March 26, 2012, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated May 25, 1959, consistent with the 1959 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 7AC-4632 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1079E 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N1079E. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 12, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data