Champion 7ECA
N9649S is a Champion 7ECA, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Bainbridge, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 27, 2021 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility; acrobatic, dated March 7, 1966.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Champion
- Model
- 7ECA · all 7ECAs and related versions
- Serial number
- 396
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- AD6EA6 (octal 53267246)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 27, 2021
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · Normal; Utility; AcrobaticFAA certificate purpose code NUA (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 7, 1966
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00584260
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Howell Alice R
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
- Address
- PO Box 658
Bainbridge, GA 39818-0658
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 N9649S, 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 Howell Alice R, an individual, certificate issued July 27, 2021, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility; acrobatic; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 396 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9649S 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 N9649S: Accident on November 16, 2015 at Eufaula, AL: 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: Champion 7ECA · operated under 091
The student pilot's decision to land with a quartering tailwind, resulting in a loss off directional control, excessive brake application, and a nose over.
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