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N8969R

Champion 7EC

Valid Georgia

N8969R is a Champion 7EC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1960. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Rutland Aviation Service INC, a corporation in Tifton, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 9, 2021 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 21, 2008.

Aircraft

Maker
Champion
Model
7EC · all 7ECs and related versions
Serial number
7EC-728
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C90-12F · 95 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1960
Cruising speed
90 mph
Transponder code
AC5F41 (octal 53057501)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 9, 2021
Expires
September 30, 2028
Last FAA action
June 10, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · March 21, 2008
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00821581

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Rutland Aviation Service INC
Type
Corporation
Address
319 Omega Eldorado Rd
Tifton, GA 31793-8672

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N8969R, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Rutland Aviation Service INC, a corporation, certificate issued September 9, 2021, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 21, 2008, 48 years after the 1960 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 7EC-728 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N8969R according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N8969R. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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