Champion AERONCA 7FC
N7543E is a Champion AERONCA 7FC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1958. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Fort Worth, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 2, 2026 and expires on March 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated May 27, 1958.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Champion
- Model
- AERONCA 7FC · all AERONCA 7FCs 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. This is how the Champion AERONCA 7 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
- 7FC-202
- 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 C90 SERIES · 95 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1958
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- AA2BAB (octal 52425653)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 2, 2026
- Expires
- March 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- March 2, 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 · May 27, 1958
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00213610
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hyde John
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 644 e Bluff St
Fort Worth, TX 76102-2309
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N7543E links to the rest of the register
- Champion AERONCA 7 134 registered
- Champion 1,604 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 C90 series 2,149 aircraft with this engine series · 95 hp
- Fort Worth, TX 1,893 aircraft registered in this town
- Fort Worth Meacham International · FTW
- Fort Worth Spinks Airport · FWS
- Perot Fld/Fort Worth Alliance Airport · AFW
- Bourland Field · 50F
- 3 more landing places in town
- Texas 29,976 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Continental C90 series 6 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental C90 series 18 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N7543E, 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 Hyde John, an individual, certificate issued March 2, 2026, expires March 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated May 27, 1958, consistent with the 1958 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 7FC-202 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N7543E was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Champion 7GC (serial 7GC-10, cancelled January 4, 1971). 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 N7543E: Accident on December 6, 2003 at Highmore, SD: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Clement-Kazmierczak Sorrell SNS-7 · operated under 091
The unsuitable terrain for landing encountered by the pilot. Contributing factors were the grass runway surface and the snowbank.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data