Champion AERONCA 7FC
N3JZ is a Champion AERONCA 7FC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Cedarville, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 24, 2018 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated June 13, 1958.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Champion
- Model
- AERONCA 7FC · all AERONCA 7FCs and related versions
- Serial number
- 7FC-212
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- A31B80 (octal 50615600)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 24, 2018
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · June 13, 1958
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00143590
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Freel Michael R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 844 W Shaffmaster Ave
Cedarville, MI 49719-9462
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 · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N3JZ, 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 Freel Michael R, an individual, certificate issued September 24, 2018, expires September 30, 2028. 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 7FC-212 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3JZ was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Zerbe BD-5B (serial 2521, cancelled May 31, 2012). 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 N3JZ: Accident on April 2, 2020 at Hessel, MI: 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: Champion AERONCA 7FC · operated under 091
The pilot's loss of directional control during landing in gusting crosswind conditions, which resulted in a runway excursion and impact with a snowbank.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN20CA138 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