Aeronca 7AC
N82805 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 La Verne, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 20, 1998 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated November 7, 1955.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aeronca
- Model
- 7AC · all 7ACs and related versions
- Serial number
- 7AC-1452
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C85 SERIES · 85 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1946
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- AB5109 (octal 52650411)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 20, 1998
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- February 15, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · November 7, 1955
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00523501
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cheatham Paul
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1502 Foothill Blvd
Ste 103 Pmb 351
La Verne, CA 91750-3439
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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 N82805, 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 Cheatham Paul, an individual, certificate issued April 20, 1998, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 7, 1955, 9 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-1452 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N82805 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 N82805: Accident on April 2, 1990 at Cottonwood, AZ: serious 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 FAILURE TO THE PILOT TO MAINTAIN CONTROL OF THE AIRCRAFT. CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACCIDENT WAS THE DECISION OF THE PILOT TO ATTEMPT A LANDING IN A CROSS WIND CONDITION WELL BEYOND THE CAPABILITY OF THE AIRCRAFT.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX90LA134 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