Aeronca 11BC
N9713E is an Aeronca 11BC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Grand Junction, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 27, 2026 and expires on February 28, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated October 23, 1960.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Aeronca
- Model
- 11BC · all 11BCs and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. This is how the Aeronca 11 Chief family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 11AC-1354
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 75 mph
- Transponder code
- AD8A22 (octal 53305042)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 27, 2026
- Expires
- February 28, 2033
- Last FAA action
- February 27, 2026
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · October 23, 1960
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00224060
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hartnell Bernard Lee Trustee
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 2976 Fairway View Dr
Grand Junction, CO 81503-3323 - Co-owners
- Hartnell Martha Elaine Trustee
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.
Connections how N9713E links to the rest of the register
- Aeronca 11 Chief 741 registered
- Aeronca 3,953 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Grand Junction, CO 162 aircraft registered in this town
- Grand Junction Regional · GJT
- Colorado 7,469 aircraft registered
- Approved modifications for the Aeronca 11 Chief 14 supplemental type certificates
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N9713E.json.
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The public federal record on N9713E, 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 Hartnell Bernard Lee Trustee, a co-owned, certificate issued February 27, 2026, expires February 28, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 11AC-1354 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9713E 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 N9713E: Accident on February 3, 1991 at Durango, CO: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Aeronca 11BC · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL OF THE AIRPLANE. CONTRIBUTING FACTORS WERE THE PILOT'S LACK OF EXPERIENCE IN AIRPLANE TYPE AND CROSSWIND CONDITIONS.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 4, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data