Champion 7ECA
N8306V is a Champion 7ECA, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1966. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Cody, Wyoming. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 6, 2014 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility; acrobatic, dated June 7, 1966.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Champion
- Model
- 7ECA · all 7ECAs and related versions
- Serial number
- 244
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1966
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- AB5B98 (octal 52655630)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 6, 2014
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility; Acrobatic · June 7, 1966
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00573431
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Jones Richard E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 12 Equine Dr
Cody, WY 82414-9646
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 N8306V, 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 Jones Richard E, an individual, certificate issued May 6, 2014, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility; acrobatic, dated June 7, 1966, consistent with the 1966 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 244 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8306V 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 N8306V: Accident on November 27, 1998 at Jardine, MT: 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: Champion 7ECA · operated under 091
The pilot-in-command's failure to maintain adequate clearance with trees and terrain. Contributing factors were unfavorable winds, mountainous terrain and trees.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA99LA017 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data