Champion 7ECA
N5235X 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 East Hanover, New Jersey. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 4, 2019 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated June 11, 1975.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Champion
- Model
- 7ECA · all 7ECAs and related versions
- Serial number
- 698
- 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
- A69730 (octal 51513460)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 4, 2019
- Expires
- February 28, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control · June 11, 1975
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00172435
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ortu Gerard
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 422 River Rd
East Hanover, NJ 07936-3020
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 N5235X, 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 Ortu Gerard, an individual, certificate issued February 4, 2019, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 11, 1975, 6 years after the 1969 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 698 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5235X 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 N5235X: Accident on April 10, 2004 at Hardin, MT: 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 7ECA · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to perform a go-around. Contributing factors were the pilot's misjudgment of speed and distance and the tree.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA04LA067 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