American Champion Aircraft 7ECA
N798L is an American Champion Aircraft 7ECA, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2005. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Letourneau University, a corporation in Longview, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 30, 2005 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated April 11, 2005.
Aircraft
- Maker
- American Champion Aircraft
- Model
- 7ECA · all 7ECAs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1393-2005
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2005
- Transponder code
- AAD6B7 (octal 52553267)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 30, 2005
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Acrobatic · April 11, 2005
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00161949
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Letourneau University
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 2100 S Mobberly Ave
Longview, TX 75602-3564
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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 N798L, 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 September 30, 2005, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated April 11, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1393-2005 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N798L 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]
2 NTSB records under N798L: Accident on January 16, 2025 at Longview, TX: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on April 15, 2024 at Lakeport, TX: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: American Champion Aircraft 7ECA · operated under 091
On January 16, 2025, about 1700 central standard time, an American Champion Aircraft 7ECA airplane, N798L sustained substantial damage when it was involved in an accident near Longview, Texas. The flight instructor and the student pilot were not injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 91 instructional flight. The purpose of the flight was for the flight instructor and the student pilot to practice soft field landings. There were no concerns noted with the airplane during the preflight inspection. The airplane departed from the East Texas Regional…
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN25LA086 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: American Champion Aircraft 7ECA · operated under 091
The student pilot’s failure to maintain adequate airspeed during the final approach, which resulted in an inadvertent aerodynamic stall. Contributing to the accident the flight instructor’s delayed remedial action.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN24LA171 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
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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