Aeronca 7AC
N2044E 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 Bonham, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 14, 2025 and expires on August 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated July 11, 1961.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aeronca
- Model
- 7AC · all 7ACs and related versions
- Serial number
- 7AC-5614
- 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
- A1A3C8 (octal 50321710)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 14, 2025
- Expires
- August 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- August 14, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · July 11, 1961
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00901052
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hale Steven B
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1220 County Road 2610
Bonham, TX 75418-8217
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 N2044E, 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 Hale Steven B, an individual, certificate issued August 14, 2025, expires August 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 11, 1961, 15 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-5614 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N2044E 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 N2044E: Accident on April 3, 1988 at Bonham, TX: no injuries, substantial damage. 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
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW88LA088 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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 August 27, 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