Champion AERONCA 7AC
N83871 is a Champion AERONCA 7AC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to S&S Aviation LLC, an LLC in Morse, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 3, 2025 and expires on March 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated September 14, 1955.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Champion
- Model
- AERONCA 7AC · all AERONCA 7ACs and related versions
- Serial number
- 7AC-2552
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C65 SERIES · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- AB7979 (octal 52674571)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 3, 2025
- Expires
- March 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- March 3, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · September 14, 1955
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00753191
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- S&S Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1724 E Whitney St
Morse, LA 70559-2546
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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 N83871, 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 S&S Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 3, 2025, expires March 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 7AC-2552 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N83871 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 N83871: Accident on April 19, 2025 at Estherwood, LA: 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 AERONCA 7AC · operated under 091
The non-certificated pilot’s failure to maintain altitude while maneuvering at low altitude that resulted in a descent and impact into terrain.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN25LA161 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