Aeronca 7FC
N7541B is an Aeronca 7FC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Bend, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 26, 2025 and expires on January 31, 2032. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aeronca
- Model
- 7FC · all 7FCs and related versions
- Serial number
- 7FC-44
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- AA2B62 (octal 52425542)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 26, 2025
- Expires
- January 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- January 26, 2025
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00287648
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Westfall James H
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 60467 Seventh Mountain Dr
Bend, OR 97702-1956
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.
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The public federal record on N7541B, 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 Westfall James H, an individual, certificate issued January 26, 2025, expires January 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 7FC-44 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N7541B 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]
1 NTSB record under N7541B: Accident on April 17, 2026 at Bend, OR: no injuries, substantial damage. 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: Aeronca 7FC · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during landing roll. Contributing to the accident was the rotor wash from a nearby helicopter.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR26LA165 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data