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A Aeronca 7 Champion (Champ), the same model family as N59Z
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026
N59Z

Aeronca 7BCM

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesOklahoma

N59Z is an Aeronca 7BCM, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Collinsville, Oklahoma. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 17, 2020 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated May 9, 1957.

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Aircraft

Maker
Aeronca
Model
7BCM · all 7BCMs and related versions
Built of
steel tube and fabric
The 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-93
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 C85 SERIES · 85 hp
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
90 mph
Transponder code
A79D4D (octal 51716515)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
November 17, 2020
Expires
November 30, 2027
Last FAA action
April 1, 2023
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 · May 9, 1957
FAA region
SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00050784

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Riggs Craig A
Type
Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
7447 e 126Th St N
Collinsville, OK 74021-7014
Co-owners
Riggs Lisa A

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Documents on file 0

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

Connections how N59Z links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Place
  • Collinsville, OK 101 aircraft registered in this town
  • Oklahoma 5,650 aircraft registered

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N59Z.json.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N59Z, 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 Riggs Craig A, a co-owned, certificate issued November 17, 2020, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

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

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 7BCM-93 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N59Z 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 N59Z. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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