Champion AERONCA 7GC
N8945R is a Champion AERONCA 7GC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Brentwood, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 6, 2018 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Champion
- Model
- AERONCA 7GC · all AERONCA 7GCs and related versions
- Serial number
- 162
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-290 SERIES · 140 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- AC5747 (octal 53053507)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 6, 2018
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00801631
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Behne Eric D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 673
Brentwood, CA 94513-0673
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.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N8945R, 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 Behne Eric D, an individual, certificate issued February 6, 2018, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 162 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8945R 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 N8945R. 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 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
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