Champion 7EC
N8970R 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 an individual in Midland, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 28, 2020 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated May 2, 1960.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Champion
- Model
- 7EC · all 7ECs and related versions
- Serial number
- 7EC-730
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C90 SERIES · 95 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1960
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- AC61BD (octal 53060675)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 28, 2020
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · May 2, 1960
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00671571
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Merrell Susan E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2798 W North Union Rd Apt 17
Midland, MI 48642-9291
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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 · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N8970R, 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 Merrell Susan E, an individual, certificate issued September 28, 2020, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated May 2, 1960, consistent with the 1960 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 7EC-730 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8970R 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 N8970R. 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 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