Champion AERONCA 7FC
N7480B is a Champion AERONCA 7FC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1957. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Rapid City, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 19, 2016 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Champion
- Model
- AERONCA 7FC · all AERONCA 7FCs and related versions
- Serial number
- 7FC-2
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C90 SERIES · 95 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1957
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- AA129C (octal 52411234)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 19, 2016
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00284638
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Benkert Daniel D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 15045 Long View Rd
Rapid City, SD 57703-9012
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 N7480B, 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 Benkert Daniel D, an individual, certificate issued April 19, 2016, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 7FC-2 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N7480B 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 N7480B. 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 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