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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- American Champion Aircraft
- Model
- 7ECA · all 7ECAs 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. Metal wing spars on American Champion production. This is how the American Champion Aircraft 7 Citabria and Champ 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
- 1409-2014
- 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 · Lycoming O-235-K2C · 118 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2014
- Transponder code
- AAC424 (octal 52542044)
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 31, 2014
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 13, 2023
- 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 · Normal; AcrobaticFAA certificate purpose code NA (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · February 19, 2014
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01137858
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Letourneau University (university or college with a flight programme: its whole fleet and safety record)
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- 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.
Connections how N793L links to the rest of the register
- American Champion Aircraft 7 Citabria and Champ 429 registered
- American Champion Aircraft 1,100 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-235-K2C 13 aircraft with this engine series · 118 hp
- Letourneau University 25 aircraft in the fleet
- Longview, TX 198 aircraft registered in this town
- East Texas Regional · GGG
- Texas 29,911 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the American Champion Aircraft 7 Citabria and Champ 32 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the American Champion Aircraft 7 Citabria and Champ 202 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-235-K2C 11 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-235-K2C 17 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Tube, cracked · 2019-06-12
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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]
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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.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data