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N5442V

Aeronca 7BCM

N5442V is an Aeronca 7BCM, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1961. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Othello, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 12, 2016 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.

Aircraft

Maker
Aeronca
Model
7BCM · all 7BCMs and related versions
Serial number
7BCM-339
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C65 SERIES · 65 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1961
Cruising speed
90 mph
Transponder code
A6E97A (octal 51564572)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 12, 2016
Expires
September 30, 2029
Last FAA action
September 2, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00583145

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Gilbert David O
Type
Individual
Address
15671 Road B SE
Othello, WA 99344-9166

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 · 0 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N5442V, 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 Gilbert David O, an individual, certificate issued September 12, 2016, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

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

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 7BCM-339 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N5442V 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 N5442V. 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