Aeronca 7BCM
N81578 is an Aeronca 7BCM, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1945. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Nevada City, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 17, 2004 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated May 22, 1958.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aeronca
- Model
- 7BCM · all 7BCMs and related versions
- Serial number
- 7AC-197
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C75 SERIES · 75 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1945
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- AB1F5D (octal 52617535)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 17, 2004
- Expires
- August 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 25, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · May 22, 1958
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00790112
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wikstad Herulf L
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 12786 Discovery Way
Nevada City, CA 95959-9044 - Co-owners
- Wikstad Rosita A
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 N81578, 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 Wikstad Herulf L, a co-owned, certificate issued February 17, 2004, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 22, 1958, 13 years after the 1945 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 7AC-197 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N81578 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 N81578: Accident on April 20, 1991 at Elma, WA: 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: Aeronca 7BCM · operated under 091
THE PILOT USED INADEQUATE STARTING PROCEDURES. FACTORS TO THE ACCIDENT WERE: THE PILOT DID NOT USE PROPER ASSISTANCE AND THE PASSENGER'S INADVERTENT CONTROL INTERFERENCE.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA91LA093 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