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N5233R

Aeronca 7AC

N5233R is an Aeronca 7AC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1946. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Corona Del Mar, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 29, 2011 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 11, 2009.

Aircraft

Maker
Aeronca
Model
7AC · all 7ACs and related versions
Serial number
7AC-6567
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-235-C1 · 115 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1946
Cruising speed
90 mph
Transponder code
A696E4 (octal 51513344)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 29, 2011
Expires
July 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 4, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · May 11, 2009
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00120739

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Vranicar Franklin E
Type
Co-owned
Address
214 Heliotrope Ave
Corona Del Mar, CA 92625-3220
Co-owners
Vranicar Patricia W

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.

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N5233R, 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 Vranicar Franklin E, a co-owned, certificate issued July 29, 2011, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 11, 2009, 63 years after the 1946 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 7AC-6567 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N5233R 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N5233R: Accident on July 9, 1994 at Tampa, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

MIA94LA177Accident on July 9, 1994 at Tampa, FL: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 17263447

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172M · operated under 091

THE PILOT-IN-COMMAND'S IMPROPER APPROACH DURING A FORCED LANDING FOLLOWING PARTIAL LOSS OF ENGINE POWER. THE LOSS OF ENGINE POWER WAS A FACTOR.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA94LA177 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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