Aeronca 7DC-CONV
N81868 is an Aeronca 7DC-CONV, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1946. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Lake Worth, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 1, 1971 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 2, 2004.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aeronca
- Model
- 7DC-CONV · all 7DC-CONVs and related versions
- Serial number
- 5695068
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C85 SERIES · 85 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1946
- Transponder code
- AB2A5F (octal 52625137)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 1, 1971
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · July 2, 2004
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00660032
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Henderson William Gary
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4501 Lakeview Dr
Lake Worth, TX 76135-2231
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 N81868, 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 Henderson William Gary, an individual, certificate issued September 1, 1971, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 2, 2004, 58 years after the 1946 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 5695068 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N81868 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 N81868: Accident on November 13, 2005 at Saginaw, TX: 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 7DC · operated under 091
The flight instructor's delayed remedial action. Contributing factors were the gusty winds.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DFW06CA029 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