Champion 7EC
N8739H is a Champion 7EC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1960. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Bemidji, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 6, 2022 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 3, 2024.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Champion
- Model
- 7EC · all 7ECs 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. Wooden wing spars on older ones; metal spars on later production. This is how the Champion 7 Citabria and Champ 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
- 7EC-729
- 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 C90-12F · 95 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1960
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- AC0516 (octal 53002426)
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 6, 2022
- Expires
- August 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 25, 2023
- 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 3, 2024
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01297745
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Shaw Brian W
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 10689 Turtle River Lake Rd NE
Bemidji, MN 56601-9980
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 3
Connections how N8739H links to the rest of the register
- Champion 7 Citabria and Champ 1,452 registered
- Champion 1,604 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 C90-12F 54 aircraft with this engine series · 95 hp
- Bemidji, MN 110 aircraft registered in this town
- Bemidji Regional · BJI
- Minnesota 6,933 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Champion 7 Citabria and Champ 9 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Champion 7 Citabria and Champ 2 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Champion 7 Citabria and Champ 157 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental C90-12F 6 airworthiness directives
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N8739H.json.
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The public federal record on N8739H, 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 Shaw Brian W, an individual, certificate issued August 6, 2022, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 3, 2024, 64 years after the 1960 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 7EC-729 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8739H was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Hughes/Dc Helicopters 500 (serial 708, cancelled March 18, 2014); North American NAVION (serial NAV-4-739, cancelled September 28, 1950); Grumman Acft Eng Cor-Schweizer G-164A (serial 1507, cancelled date not given). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N8739H. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data