Aeronca 7CCM
N85173 is an Aeronca 7CCM, 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 Benson, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 1, 2026 and expires on June 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated June 15, 1956. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aeronca
- Model
- 7CCM · all 7CCMs and related versions
- Serial number
- 7AC-3905
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C90 SERIES · 95 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1946
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- ABAE78 (octal 52727170)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 1, 2026
- Expires
- June 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- June 1, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · June 15, 1956
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00742771
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ellis Jayson A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 357 Sherrill Farm Dr
Benson, NC 27504-6772
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 1
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The public federal record on N85173, 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 Ellis Jayson A, an individual, certificate issued June 1, 2026, expires June 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 15, 1956, 10 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-3905 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N85173 according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 9, 2026). [3]
1 NTSB record under N85173: Accident on May 28, 1990 at Rumford, ME: 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
THE PILOT MADE A STEEP TURN TO AVOID THE SHORE LINE AND INADVERTENTLY STALLED. FACTORS RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WERE: THE PILOTS DECISION TO TAKEOFF WITH A CANOE STRAPPED TO ONE OF THE FLOATS AND HIS LACK OF EXPERIENCE IN CARRYING A CANOE ON THE FLOATS.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC90LA113 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
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, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data