Aeronca 7BCM
N5498N is an Aeronca 7BCM, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1947. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Farmer Richard M, a partnership in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 22, 2026 and expires on September 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Aeronca
- Model
- 7BCM · all 7BCMs and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. Wooden wing spars on older Champs; metal spars since the 1990s rebuilds. This is how the Aeronca 7 Champion (Champ) family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 7BCM-251
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C65 SERIES · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1947
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- A6FCD8 (octal 51576330)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 22, 2026
- Expires
- September 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2026
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00243365
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Farmer Richard M
- Type
- PartnershipFAA type of owner code 2 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1420 Bear Creek Rd
Tuscaloosa, AL 35405 - Co-owners
- Burke Kevin e
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N5498N links to the rest of the register
- Aeronca 7 Champion (Champ) 2,355 registered
- Aeronca 3,953 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental A65 / C65 series 7,967 aircraft with this engine series · 65 hp
- Farmer Richard M 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Tuscaloosa, AL 76 aircraft registered in this town
- Tuscaloosa Ntl Airport · TCL
- Alabama 4,325 aircraft registered
- Approved modifications for the Aeronca 7 Champion (Champ) 13 supplemental type certificates
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Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N5498N, 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 Farmer Richard M, a partnership, certificate issued September 22, 2026, expires September 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 7BCM-251 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5498N 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N5498N. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data