Aeronca 7DC
N2278E is an Aeronca 7DC, 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 Hawthorne, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 8, 2017 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for to show compliance with regulations, dated January 14, 1974.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aeronca
- Model
- 7DC · all 7DCs and related versions
- Serial number
- 5852
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C75 SERIES · 75 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1946
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- A1FE77 (octal 50377167)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 8, 2017
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · To show compliance with regulationsFAA certificate purpose code 0 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · January 14, 1974
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00871992
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Brock Harvey J
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
- Address
- 405 Melrose Landing Blvd
Hawthorne, FL 32640-4422
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 N2278E, 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 Brock Harvey J, an individual, certificate issued August 8, 2017, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 14, 1974, 28 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 5852 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N2278E 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 N2278E. 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 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
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