Aeronca 7AC
N83216 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 co-owned owners in Starksboro, Vermont. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 15, 2019 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 19, 1999.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aeronca
- Model
- 7AC · all 7ACs and related versions
- Serial number
- 7AC-1877
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C65 SERIES · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1946
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- AB6262 (octal 52661142)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 15, 2019
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 27, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 19, 1999
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00123391
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lewis Peter D
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 3249 Ireland Rd
Starksboro, VT 05487-7133 - Co-owners
- Schmidt David M
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 N83216, 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 Lewis Peter D, a co-owned, certificate issued November 15, 2019, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 19, 1999, 53 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-1877 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N83216 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 N83216: Accident on April 25, 2020 at Enosburg, VT: 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 improper decision to land on unsuitable terrain, which resulted in a nose-over.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data