Aeronca 7AC-CONV
N85243 is an Aeronca 7AC-CONV, 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 Waynesboro, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 16, 2023 and expires on May 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 9, 2011.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aeronca
- Model
- 7AC-CONV · all 7AC-CONVs and related versions
- Serial number
- 7AC-3977
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C85-12F · 85 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1946
- Transponder code
- ABB1C6 (octal 52730706)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 16, 2023
- Expires
- May 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- May 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · February 9, 2011
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00772761
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Tieman Richard L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 137 N Grant St
Waynesboro, PA 17268-1229
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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 N85243, 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 Tieman Richard L, an individual, certificate issued May 16, 2023, expires May 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 9, 2011, 65 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-3977 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N85243 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 N85243: Accident on April 25, 1989 at Marseilles, IL: minor 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
PIC'S OVERCONFIDENCE IN THE ACCIDENT AIRCRAFT'S CLIMB PERFORMANCE AS HE ATTEMPTED TO TAKE OFF UP HILL AND OVER WIRES.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI89DEE02 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