American Champion Aircraft 7ECA
N793L is an American Champion Aircraft 7ECA, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2014. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Letourneau University, a corporation in Longview, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 31, 2014 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated February 19, 2014.
Aircraft
- Maker
- American Champion Aircraft
- Model
- 7ECA · all 7ECAs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1409-2014
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-235-K2C · 118 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2014
- Transponder code
- AAC424 (octal 52542044)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 31, 2014
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 13, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Acrobatic · February 19, 2014
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01137858
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Letourneau University
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 7001
Longview, TX 75607-7001
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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 N793L, 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 March 31, 2014, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated February 19, 2014, consistent with the 2014 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1409-2014 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N793L 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 N793L: Accident on April 12, 2024 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 rudder post’s failure due to corrosion fatigue. Contributing to the accident were the misalignment of the rudder hinge components, which produced mechanical binding and elevated localized stress, and a compromised the protective coating, which allowed corrosion to accelerate fatigue cracking.
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- 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