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A American Champion Aircraft 7 Citabria and Champ, the same model family as N7EC
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N7EC

American Champion Aircraft 7EC

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesIllinois

N7EC is an American Champion Aircraft 7EC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2007. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Wolford Sales & Leasing LLC, an LLC in Abingdon, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 20, 2016 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated December 12, 2007.

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Aircraft

Maker
American Champion Aircraft
Model
7EC · all 7ECs and related versions
Built of
steel tube and fabric
The 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
1018-2007
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
Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor 0-200-A · 100 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2007
Transponder code
A95043 (octal 52250103)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
September 20, 2016
Expires
September 30, 2029
Last FAA action
September 2, 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; UtilityFAA certificate purpose code NU (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 12, 2007
FAA region
Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00435839

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Wolford Sales & Leasing LLC
Type
LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
1783 Berwick Rd
Abingdon, IL 61410-9524

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 1

2010-09-07Bell Helicopter Textron 206L-1 · Second attempt to mail the triennial form, no response

Connections how N7EC links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
Place
  • Abingdon, IL 8 aircraft registered in this town
  • Illinois 8,050 aircraft registered

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N7EC.json.

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The public federal record on N7EC, 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 Wolford Sales & Leasing LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 20, 2016, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated December 12, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1018-2007 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N7EC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell Helicopter Textron 206L-1 (serial 45511, cancelled September 7, 2010). 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 N7EC: Accident on December 4, 1986 at Pendleton, OR: fatal, destroyed (3 fatal). 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

SEA87MA034Accident on December 4, 1986 at Pendleton, OR: fatal, destroyed (3 fatal).serial on NTSB record: 45511

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell 206L-1 · operated under 135

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data