Champion 11BC
N3688E is a Champion 11BC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1947. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Eaa Chapter 540 Lancaster County, a corporation in Smoketown, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 31, 2023 and expires on August 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 23, 2003.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Champion
- Model
- 11BC
- Serial number
- 11AC-1849
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C85 SERIES · 85 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1947
- Transponder code
- A42D79 (octal 51026571)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 31, 2023
- Expires
- August 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- August 31, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · July 23, 2003
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00104168
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Eaa Chapter 540 Lancaster County
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 7
Smoketown, PA 17576-0007
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N3688E, 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 Eaa Chapter 540 Lancaster County, a corporation, certificate issued August 31, 2023, expires August 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 23, 2003, 56 years after the 1947 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 11AC-1849 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3688E was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aeronca 11AC (serial 11AC-S-38, cancelled November 9, 1951). 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]
1 NTSB record under N3688E: Accident on November 4, 1983 at Beaufort, SC: 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: Beech BE-58P · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL84LA037 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
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