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N5170X

Champion 7ECA

Valid Texas

N5170X is a Champion 7ECA, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1969. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Fredericksburg, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 11, 1980 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated April 7, 1969.

Aircraft

Maker
Champion
Model
7ECA · all 7ECAs and related versions
Serial number
677
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1969
Cruising speed
90 mph
Transponder code
A67DDE (octal 51476736)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 11, 1980
Expires
May 31, 2028
Last FAA action
May 12, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Acrobatic · April 7, 1969
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00012185

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Fitzpatrick Robert M
Type
Individual
Address
PO Box 3226
Fredericksburg, TX 78624-1915

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N5170X, 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 Fitzpatrick Robert M, an individual, certificate issued September 11, 1980, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated April 7, 1969, consistent with the 1969 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 677 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N5170X according to the deregistered file. [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 N5170X. 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