Aeronca 7AC
N84228 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 Cape Girardeau, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 28, 2013 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated April 15, 1963.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Aeronca
- Model
- 7AC · all 7ACs 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-2919
- 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 C85 SERIES · 85 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1946
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- AB8A06 (octal 52705006)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 28, 2013
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- MultipleFAA airworthiness class code 6 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest controlFAA certificate purpose code 131 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 15, 1963
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00993081
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Marshall Donald R
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1577 Grandview Dr
Cape Girardeau, MO 63701-2223 - Co-owners
- Marshall Nancy F
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.
Connections how N84228 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 C85 series 4,671 aircraft with this engine series · 85 hp
- Cape Girardeau, MO 32 aircraft registered in this town
- Cape Girardeau Regional · CGI
- Missouri 5,815 aircraft registered
- Approved modifications for the Aeronca 7 Champion (Champ) 13 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental C85 series 7 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental C85 series 12 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N84228, 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 Marshall Donald R, a co-owned, certificate issued March 28, 2013, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 15, 1963, 17 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-2919 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N84228 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 N84228: Accident on August 2, 1992 at Whitman, NE: 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
WATER CONTAMINATION IN THE FUEL AND LOW MAGNETO OUTPUT.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 3, 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 3, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data