Aeronca 7AC
N81681 is an Aeronca 7AC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1945. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Apple Valley, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 28, 1999 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated December 9, 1957.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aeronca
- Model
- 7AC · all 7ACs and related versions
- Serial number
- 7AC-300
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C65 SERIES · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1945
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- AB2330 (octal 52621460)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 28, 1999
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · December 9, 1957
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00990102
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dagnon Paul A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 15910 Harmony Way
Apple Valley, MN 55124-7058
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 N81681, 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 Dagnon Paul A, an individual, certificate issued January 28, 1999, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 9, 1957, 12 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-300 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N81681 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 N81681: Accident on June 24, 2000 at Lakeville, MN: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). 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 7AC · operated under 091
the pilot not maintaining aircraft control and the stall/spin she encountered during the approach on base to final. A factor was the pilot passenger not detecting the remedial action needed to correct the aircraft's nose up attitude during the approach.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI00FA170 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