Aeronca 7AC
N85502 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 co-owned owners in Homer, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 28, 1987 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated July 16, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aeronca
- Model
- 7AC · all 7ACs and related versions
- Serial number
- 7AC-4242
- 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
- ABBC5E (octal 52736136)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 28, 1987
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · July 16, 1956
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00493921
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Stoltzfus Karl D
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- PO Box 3312
Homer, AK 99603-3312 - Co-owners
- Clymer Julia M
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 N85502, 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 Stoltzfus Karl D, a co-owned, certificate issued August 28, 1987, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 16, 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-4242 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N85502 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 N85502: Accident on September 23, 1992 at Homer, AK: 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: Champion 7AC · operated under 091
THE PILOT IN COMMANDS INFLIGHT PLANNING/DECISION IN SELECTING UNSUITABLE TERRAIN. A FACTOR RELATING TO THE ACCIDENT WAS THE DITCH.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC92LA180 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