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N9879B

Champion 7FC

N9879B is a Champion 7FC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1958. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Reading, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 5, 2019 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated May 23, 1958.

Aircraft

Maker
Champion
Model
7FC · all 7FCs and related versions
Serial number
199
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C90 SERIES · 95 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1958
Cruising speed
90 mph
Transponder code
ADC8BA (octal 53344272)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 5, 2019
Expires
September 30, 2029
Last FAA action
July 29, 2026
Airworthiness
Standard · May 23, 1958
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00693590

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Strine Russell A
Type
Individual
Address
110 Air Museum Dr
Reading, PA 19605-9472

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.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N9879B, 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 Strine Russell A, an individual, certificate issued September 5, 2019, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate, dated May 23, 1958, consistent with the 1958 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 199 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N9879B 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 N9879B. 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