Ercoupe 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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Ercoupe
- Model
- 415-C · all 415-Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- 958
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 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 registration
- Certificate issued
- October 17, 2023
- Expires
- October 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · September 21, 1955
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00180351
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Illinois Ercoupe Flyers LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1272 Bainbridge Ct
Belleville, IL 62221-7979
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 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.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN15LA177 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