American Champion Aircraft 7EC
N87EC is an American Champion Aircraft 7EC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2007. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Southwest Aircraft LLC, an LLC in Las Cruces, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 5, 2025 and expires on November 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated July 22, 2007.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- American Champion Aircraft
- 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. Metal wing spars on American Champion production. This is how the American Champion Aircraft 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
- 1010-2007
- 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
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor O-200A · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2007
- Transponder code
- ABF464 (octal 52772144)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 5, 2025
- Expires
- November 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- November 5, 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 · Normal; UtilityFAA certificate purpose code NU (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 22, 2007
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00369169
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Southwest Aircraft 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
- 9050 Zia Blvd
Las Cruces, NM 88007-9008
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N87EC links to the rest of the register
- American Champion Aircraft 7 Citabria and Champ 429 registered
- American Champion Aircraft 1,101 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 O-200A 296 aircraft with this engine series · 100 hp
- Southwest Aircraft LLC 9 aircraft in the fleet
- Las Cruces, NM 137 aircraft registered in this town
- Las Cruces International · LRU
- New Mexico 3,105 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the American Champion Aircraft 7 Citabria and Champ 32 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the American Champion Aircraft 7 Citabria and Champ 202 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental O-200A 10 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental O-200A 438 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N87EC, 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 Southwest Aircraft LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 5, 2025, expires November 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated July 22, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1010-2007 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N87EC 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N87EC. 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 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 28, 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 28, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data