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N1254E

Aeronca 7AC

Valid Illinois

N1254E is an Aeronca 7AC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1946. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Galena, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 2, 2014 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 7, 1955.

Aircraft

Maker
Aeronca
Model
7AC · all 7ACs and related versions
Serial number
7AC-4812
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C65 SERIES · 65 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1946
Cruising speed
90 mph
Transponder code
A0692E (octal 50064456)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
December 2, 2014
Expires
December 31, 2027
Last FAA action
April 7, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · November 7, 1955
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00000610

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Miller James L
Type
Individual
Address
402 4Th St
Galena, IL 61036-2414

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N1254E, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Miller James L, an individual, certificate issued December 2, 2014, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 7, 1955, 9 years after the 1946 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. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 7AC-4812 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N1254E according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N1254E: Accident on January 8, 2013 at Rialto, CA: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

WPR13CA088Accident on January 8, 2013 at Rialto, CA: minor injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Aeronca 7AC · operated under 091

The pilot's failure to maintain airplane control while taxiing in gusting wind conditions.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data