Champion 7AC
N84426 is a Champion 7AC, 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 Austin, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 9, 2020 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated April 9, 1959.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Champion
- Model
- 7AC · all 7ACs and related versions
- Serial number
- 7AC3123
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C65 SERIES · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1946
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- AB9172 (octal 52710562)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 9, 2020
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · April 9, 1959
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00073021
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hopkins Daniel E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 9409 Dallum Dr
Austin, TX 78753-4516
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.
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The public federal record on N84426, 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 Hopkins Daniel E, an individual, certificate issued January 9, 2020, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 9, 1959, 13 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 7AC3123 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N84426 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 N84426: Accident on July 1, 2003 at San Antonio, TX: serious 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 7AC · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain minimum required airspeed while maneuvering, resulting in an inadvertent stall of the airplane.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW03LA200 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