American Champion Aircraft 7ECA
N790L is an American Champion Aircraft 7ECA, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2011. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Letourneau University, a corporation in Longview, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 17, 2011 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated June 21, 2011.
Aircraft
- Maker
- American Champion Aircraft
- Model
- 7ECA · all 7ECAs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1408-2011
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-235-K2C · 118 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2011
- Transponder code
- AAB8FF (octal 52534377)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 17, 2011
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Acrobatic · June 21, 2011
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01070977
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Letourneau University
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 7001
Longview, TX 75607-7001
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 N790L, 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 Letourneau University, a corporation, certificate issued October 17, 2011, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated June 21, 2011, consistent with the 2011 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1408-2011 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N790L 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 N790L: Accident on October 7, 2020 at Longview, TX: 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: American Champion Aircraft 7ECA · operated under 091
The improper installation of a clevis pin in the rudder system which led to a loss of directional control during landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN21LA033 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