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N7543E

Champion AERONCA 7FC

Valid Texas

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.

Aircraft

Maker
Champion
Model
AERONCA 7FC · all AERONCA 7FCs and related versions
Serial number
7FC-202
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C90 SERIES · 95 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1958
Cruising speed
90 mph
Transponder code
AA2BAB (octal 52425653)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 2, 2026
Expires
March 31, 2033
Last FAA action
March 2, 2026
Airworthiness
Standard · May 27, 1958
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00213610

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Hyde John
Type
Individual
Address
644 E Bluff St
Fort Worth, TX 76102-2309

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

1971-01-04Champion 7GC · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Hyde John, an individual, certificate issued March 2, 2026, expires March 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate, dated May 27, 1958, consistent with the 1958 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 7FC-202 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

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]

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N7543E: Accident on December 6, 2003 at Highmore, SD: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

CHI04LA040Accident on December 6, 2003 at Highmore, SD: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 247

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.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI04LA040 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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