Aeronca 7BCM
N81686 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 an individual in Utopia, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 22, 2015 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated May 28, 1957.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aeronca
- Model
- 7BCM · all 7BCMs and related versions
- Serial number
- 7AC-305
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C85 SERIES · 85 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1945
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- AB2335 (octal 52621465)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 22, 2015
- Expires
- June 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 19, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control · May 28, 1957
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00660112
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Frost David R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 57
Utopia, TX 78884-0057
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 N81686, 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 Frost David R, an individual, certificate issued June 22, 2015, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 28, 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-305 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N81686 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 N81686: Accident on July 23, 2015 at Warsaw, MO: 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's failure to maintain directional control during landing, which resulted in a runway excursion and a collision with terrain.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA15CA201 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