Champion 7EC
N70824 is a Champion 7EC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1959. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Bloomington, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 23, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 17, 1993.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Champion
- Model
- 7EC · all 7ECs and related versions
- Serial number
- 7EC-377
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C90 SERIES · 95 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1959
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- A97501 (octal 52272401)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 23, 2025
- Expires
- July 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- July 23, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 17, 1993
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00164432
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Heidebrink James M
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 19671 Newgate St
Bloomington, IL 61705-5891
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N70824, 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 Heidebrink James M, an individual, certificate issued July 23, 2025, expires July 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 17, 1993, 34 years after the 1959 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 7EC-377 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N70824 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper J3C-65 (serial 17840, cancelled July 27, 1988). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N70824: Accident on July 7, 1986 at Welch, WV: serious injuries, destroyed. 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: Piper J3C-65 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL86LA188 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