Aeronca 11AC
N9742E is an Aeronca 11AC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1946. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Monkton, Maryland. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 1, 1994 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 7, 1994.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aeronca
- Model
- 11AC · all 11ACs and related versions
- Serial number
- 11AC-1388
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C85 SERIES · 85 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1946
- Cruising speed
- 75 mph
- Transponder code
- AD9524 (octal 53312444)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 1, 1994
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · July 7, 1994
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00042298
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Forbes James A
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 16623 Hereford Road
Monkton, MD 21111 - Co-owners
- Forbes Alice L
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N9742E, 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 Forbes James A, a co-owned, certificate issued July 1, 1994, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 7, 1994, 48 years after the 1946 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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 11AC-1388 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9742E was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bellanca 17-30A (serial 7830882, cancelled August 16, 1995). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N9742E: Accident on May 26, 1992 at Graford, TX: minor 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: Bellanca 17-30A · operated under 091
LOOSE JAM NUT ON THROTTLE CABLE. FACTORS WERE INADEQUATE ANNUAL INSPECTION AND UNSUITABLE TERRAIN AND WATER.
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
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