Aeronca 11AC
N86073 is an Aeronca 11AC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Dirigo Aerospace Solutions LLC, an LLC in Sumner, Maine. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 27, 2025 and expires on August 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated April 16, 1956.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Aeronca
- Model
- 11AC · all 11ACs and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. This is how the Aeronca 11 Chief family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 11AC-496
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C65 SERIES · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 75 mph
- Transponder code
- ABD240 (octal 52751100)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 27, 2025
- Expires
- August 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- August 27, 2025
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · April 16, 1956
- FAA region
- New EnglandFAA region code E (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00332541
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dirigo Aerospace Solutions LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 9 Main St
Sumner, ME 04292-3200
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.
Connections how N86073 links to the rest of the register
- Aeronca 11 Chief 741 registered
- Aeronca 3,953 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental A65 / C65 series 7,964 aircraft with this engine series · 65 hp
- Dirigo Aerospace Solutions LLC 8 aircraft in the fleet
- Sumner, ME 8 aircraft registered in this town
- Maine 1,426 aircraft registered
- Approved modifications for the Aeronca 11 Chief 14 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N86073, 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 Dirigo Aerospace Solutions LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 27, 2025, expires August 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 11AC-496 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N86073 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 N86073: Accident on December 6, 1988 at Tampa, FL: 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.
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Aeronca 11AC · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data