Aeronca 7AC
N3708E is an Aeronca 7AC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1947. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Waller, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 29, 1988 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated April 9, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aeronca
- Model
- 7AC · all 7ACs and related versions
- Serial number
- 7AC-7009
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C65 SERIES · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1947
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- A43740 (octal 51033500)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 29, 1988
- Expires
- November 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · April 9, 1956
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00833413
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hoffpauir Stanley C
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 32103 Windrose Ln
Waller, TX 77484-9058
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 N3708E, 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 Hoffpauir Stanley C, an individual, certificate issued July 29, 1988, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 9, 1956, 9 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 7AC-7009 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3708E 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]
2 NTSB records under N3708E: Accident on May 8, 2004 at Fort Stockton, TX: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on June 1, 1985 at Edna, TX: minor 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Aeronca 7AC · operated under 091
The pilot's improper leaning of the fuel/air mixture in-flight, which resulted in a loss of engine power. Factor were the wind gusts and the crosswind.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW04LA124 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Aeronca 7AC · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW85LA243 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