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N4741Y

Aeronca 7AC

Valid Michigan

N4741Y is an Aeronca 7AC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Coldwater, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 29, 2023 and expires on August 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated September 25, 1956.

Aircraft

Maker
Aeronca
Model
7AC · all 7ACs and related versions
Serial number
7AC-5637
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
90 mph
Transponder code
A5D288 (octal 51351210)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 29, 2023
Expires
August 31, 2030
Last FAA action
September 1, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · September 25, 1956
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00643544

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Best Joseph J
Type
Individual
Address
371 Airport Dr
Coldwater, MI 49036

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

1982-09-24Piper PA-25-260 · exported to Mexico · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N4741Y, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Best Joseph J, an individual, certificate issued August 29, 2023, expires August 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 7AC-5637 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N4741Y was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-25-260 (serial 254491, cancelled September 24, 1982). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N4741Y. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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