Aeronca 7AC
N84399 is an Aeronca 7AC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Newport, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 7, 2022 and expires on January 31, 2029. 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-3094
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- AB8EB3 (octal 52707263)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 7, 2022
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00173051
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- French Richard A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 541 Park Meadows Dr
Newport, NC 28570-8199
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 N84399, 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 French Richard A, an individual, certificate issued January 7, 2022, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 7AC-3094 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N84399 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]
3 NTSB records under N84399: Accident on August 22, 2004 at Spring Hope, NC: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on November 8, 1991 at Wilson, NC: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on June 6, 1984 at Patton, PA: 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 3
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Aeronca 7AC · operated under 091
The binding of the right aileron control cable, which resulted in a loss in aileron control, and subsequent collision with trees and terrain.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL04CA169 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Aeronca 7AC · operated under 091
THE INTENTIONAL OPERATION OF THE AIRCRAFT WITH A KNOWN DEFICIENCY AND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT INSPECTION BY THE PILOT.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL92LA021 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Aeronca 7AC · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC84LA206 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