Champion AERONCA 7BCM
N2557E is a Champion AERONCA 7BCM, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Boca Raton, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 25, 2017 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated November 29, 1955.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Champion
- Model
- AERONCA 7BCM · all AERONCA 7BCMs 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. This is how the Champion AERONCA 7 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
- 7AC-6140
- 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 · Cont Motor C85 SERIES · 85 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- A26D63 (octal 50466543)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 25, 2017
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 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 · November 29, 1955
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00623052
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lenz David
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 740 Aurelia St
Boca Raton, FL 33486-3530 - Co-owners
- Lenz Matthew
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.
Connections how N2557E links to the rest of the register
- Champion AERONCA 7 134 registered
- Champion 1,604 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental C85 series 4,672 aircraft with this engine series · 85 hp
- Boca Raton, FL 334 aircraft registered in this town
- Boca Raton Airport · BCT
- Florida 21,709 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Continental C85 series 7 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental C85 series 12 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N2557E.json.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N2557E, 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 Lenz David, a co-owned, certificate issued October 25, 2017, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 7AC-6140 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N2557E 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 N2557E. 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 November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 13, 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, November 13, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data