American Champion Aircraft 7ECA
N131RA is an American Champion Aircraft 7ECA, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2003. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Florida Institute of Technology, a corporation in Melbourne, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 24, 2023 and expires on June 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated July 1, 2003.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- American Champion Aircraft
- Model
- 7ECA · all 7ECAs 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. Metal wing spars on American Champion production. This is how the American Champion Aircraft 7 Citabria and 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
- 1389-2003
- 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 · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2003
- Transponder code
- A08060 (octal 50100140)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 24, 2023
- Expires
- June 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- June 24, 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 · Normal; UtilityFAA certificate purpose code NU (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 1, 2003
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00036969
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Florida Institute of Technology (university or college with a flight programme: its whole fleet and safety record)
- 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
- 150 W University Blvd
Melbourne, FL 32901-8995
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N131RA links to the rest of the register
- American Champion Aircraft 7 Citabria and Champ 429 registered
- American Champion Aircraft 1,102 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-235 series 6,131 aircraft with this engine series · 115 hp
- Florida Institute Of Technology 40 aircraft in the fleet
- Melbourne, FL 320 aircraft registered in this town
- Melbourne Orlando International · MLB
- Florida 21,712 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the American Champion Aircraft 7 Citabria and Champ 32 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the American Champion Aircraft 7 Citabria and Champ 202 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-235 series 13 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-235 series 20 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N131RA, 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 Florida Institute of Technology, a corporation, certificate issued June 24, 2023, expires June 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated July 1, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1389-2003 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N131RA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aymar SONERAI-I (serial 127, cancelled March 13, 1981). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N131RA. 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 October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data