Champion 7FC
N8942R is a Champion 7FC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1959. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Saint Jo, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 6, 1992 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated December 30, 1959.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Champion
- Model
- 7FC · all 7FCs and related versions
- Serial number
- 7FC-382
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C90 SERIES · 95 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1959
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- AC56DE (octal 53053336)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 6, 1992
- Expires
- February 28, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · December 30, 1959
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00991631
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Richards Penny L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3419 Clear Creek Loop
Saint Jo, TX 76265-3148
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 N8942R, 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 Richards Penny L, an individual, certificate issued November 6, 1992, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated December 30, 1959, consistent with the 1959 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 7FC-382 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8942R 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 N8942R: Accident on June 30, 1992 at Paris, TX: 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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Champion 7FC · operated under 091
FUEL EXHAUSTION POWER LOSS. FACTORS WERE A LOOSE FUEL CAP, INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT BY THE PILOT AND THE LACK OF SUITABLE TERRAIN.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data