Aeronca 7AC
N85397 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 Kyle E Rich INC, a corporation in Sumner, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 8, 2008 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated May 23, 1958.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aeronca
- Model
- 7AC · all 7ACs and related versions
- Serial number
- 7AC-4137
- 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
- ABB630 (octal 52733060)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 8, 2008
- Expires
- February 28, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · May 23, 1958
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00142721
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kyle E Rich INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 14500 X Ave
Sumner, IA 50674-7694
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 N85397, 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 Kyle E Rich INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 8, 2008, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 23, 1958, 12 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-4137 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N85397 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 N85397: Accident on April 5, 1987 at Horizon City, TX: serious injuries, destroyed. 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
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW87LA091 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