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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Ercoupe 415-C
N87EV is an Ercoupe 415-C, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1946. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Illinois Ercoupe Flyers LLC, an LLC in Belleville, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 17, 2023 and expires on October 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated September 21, 1955.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Ercoupe
- Model
- 415-C · all 415-Cs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. Fabric-covered outer wings on the early ones. This is how the Ercoupe 415 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
- 958
- 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&C75 SERIES · 75 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1946
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- ABF475 (octal 52772165)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 17, 2023
- Expires
- October 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 17, 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 · September 21, 1955
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00180351
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Illinois Ercoupe Flyers LLC (flight school: its whole fleet and safety record)
- 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
- 1272 Bainbridge Ct
Belleville, IL 62221-7979
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N87EV links to the rest of the register
- Ercoupe 415 793 registered
- Ercoupe 833 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental A75 / C75 series 1,504 aircraft with this engine series · 75 hp
- Illinois Ercoupe Flyers LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Belleville, IL 39 aircraft registered in this town
- Scott Afb/Midamerica St. Louis Airport · BLV
- Illinois 8,050 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N87EV, 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 Illinois Ercoupe Flyers LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 17, 2023, expires October 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 21, 1955, 9 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 958 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N87EV 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 N87EV: Accident on March 7, 2015 at St Jacob, IL: 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: Ercoupe 415 C · operated under 091
The loss of engine power during the go-around due to fuel contamination.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data