Aeronca 7AC
N1472E 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 Schwantz Charles Macon Thomas, a partnership in Azle, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 31, 2021 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 4, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aeronca
- Model
- 7AC · all 7ACs and related versions
- Serial number
- 7AC-5035
- 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
- A0BF54 (octal 50137524)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 31, 2021
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 4, 1956
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00761780
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Schwantz Charles Macon Thomas
- Type
- Partnership
- Address
- 2000 Adams Ln S
Azle, TX 76020-1850 - Co-owners
- Schwantz Sharee Mark Chu
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.
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The public federal record on N1472E, 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 Schwantz Charles Macon Thomas, a partnership, certificate issued July 31, 2021, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 4, 1956, 10 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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 7AC-5035 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1472E 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]
1 NTSB record under N1472E: Accident on August 21, 2021 at Fort Worth, TX: fatal, substantial damage (2 fatal). Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Aeronca 7AC · operated under 091
The pilot’s exceedance of the airplane’s critical angle of attack during the initial climb, which resulted in an aerodynamic stall. Contributing to the accident was the pilot’s inadequate preflight planning, which resulted in an exceedance of the airplane’s weight and balance limitations and decreased takeoff performance.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data