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N83587

Aeronca 7AC

Valid Montana

N83587 is an Aeronca 7AC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Porter Flying Service LLC, an LLC in Missoula, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 17, 2025 and expires on September 30, 2032. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
Aeronca
Model
7AC · all 7ACs and related versions
Serial number
7AC-2263
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
90 mph
Transponder code
AB6E7D (octal 52667175)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 17, 2025
Expires
September 30, 2032
Last FAA action
September 17, 2025
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00883271

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Porter Flying Service LLC
Type
LLC
Address
725 SW Higgins Ave Ste C
Missoula, MT 59803-1420

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.

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N83587, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Porter Flying Service LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 17, 2025, expires September 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate

No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 7AC-2263 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N83587 according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N83587: Accident on April 19, 2004 at Hayward, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

LAX04LA192Accident on April 19, 2004 at Hayward, CA: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 2263

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Aeronca Champ 7AC · operated under 091

the pilot's inadequate compensation for the crosswind conditions and failure to maintain directional control.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX04LA192 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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