Aeronca 7EC
N84116 is an Aeronca 7EC, 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 Luray, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 3, 2025 and expires on October 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 2, 2012.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Aeronca
- Model
- 7EC · all 7ECs and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. Wooden wing spars on older Champs; metal spars since the 1990s rebuilds. This is how the Aeronca 7 Champion (Champ) family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 7AC-2804
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor C90-12F · 95 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1946
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- AB862A (octal 52703052)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 3, 2025
- Expires
- October 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- October 3, 2025
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 2, 2012
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00183101
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Koliadko Joseph I
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 356 Old Farm Rd
Luray, VA 22835-3941
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N84116 links to the rest of the register
- Aeronca 7 Champion (Champ) 2,355 registered
- Aeronca 3,953 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental C90-12F 54 aircraft with this engine series · 95 hp
- Luray, VA 15 aircraft registered in this town
- Luray Caverns Airport · LUA
- Virginia 5,972 aircraft registered
- Approved modifications for the Aeronca 7 Champion (Champ) 13 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental C90-12F 6 airworthiness directives
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The public federal record on N84116, 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 Koliadko Joseph I, an individual, certificate issued October 3, 2025, expires October 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 2, 2012, 66 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-2804 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N84116 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 N84116: Accident on May 27, 2015 at Palmer, AK: 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 7EC · operated under 091
The instructor's delayed remedial actions, and the student pilot's failure to maintain adequate airspeed, which resulted in a stall just above the ground and the subsequent hard landing.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data