Aeronca 7AC
N82107 is an Aeronca 7AC, 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 Puyallup, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 20, 2018 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 14, 1956.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Aeronca
- Model
- 7AC · all 7ACs and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe 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. Wooden wing spars on older Champs; metal spars since the 1990s rebuilds. This is how the Aeronca 7 Champion (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
- 7AC-733
- 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
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor C85-12 · 85 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1946
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- AB370A (octal 52633412)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 20, 2018
- Expires
- June 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 19, 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 14, 1956
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00913771
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mclavy Michael J
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 121 5Th Ave NW
Puyallup, WA 98371-4341
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.
Connections how N82107 links to the rest of the register
- Aeronca 7 Champion (Champ) 2,355 registered
- Aeronca 3,953 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental C85-12 82 aircraft with this engine series · 85 hp
- Puyallup, WA 135 aircraft registered in this town
- Pierce County/Thun Field · PLU
- Washington 10,570 aircraft registered
- Approved modifications for the Aeronca 7 Champion (Champ) 13 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental C85-12 1 airworthiness directives
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The public federal record on N82107, 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 Mclavy Michael J, an individual, certificate issued June 20, 2018, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 14, 1956, 10 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 7AC-733 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N82107 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 N82107: Accident on September 2, 2000 at Paso Robles, CA: 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 7AC · operated under 091
the pilot's failure to brief his passenger about the operation of the controls.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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