Aeronca 7EC
N4652E is an Aeronca 7EC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1950. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 15, 1986 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated February 29, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aeronca
- Model
- 7EC · all 7ECs and related versions
- Serial number
- 7EC-3
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C90 SERIES · 95 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1950
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- A5AED1 (octal 51327321)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 15, 1986
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · February 29, 1956
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00613234
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ralston Roger A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1115 NW 4Th Ave
Grand Rapids, MN 55744
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 N4652E, 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 Ralston Roger A, an individual, certificate issued August 15, 1986, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 29, 1956, 6 years after the 1950 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 7EC-3 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4652E 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]
1 NTSB record under N4652E: Accident on April 26, 1991 at O'Neill, NE: 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: Aeronca 7EC · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S SELECTION OF UNSUITABLE TERRAIN FOR A PRECAUTIONARY LANDING. FACTORS WERE THE PILOT'S DISREGARDING THE WEATHER BRIEFING AND HIS INTENTIONAL FLIGHT INTO ADVERSE WEATHER.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI91LA145 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data