{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1993-08-17","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-07-23","city":"BLOOMINGTON","country_code":"US","county_code":"167","cruise_speed_mph":90,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"17009","engine_horsepower":95,"engine_maker":"CONT MOTOR","engine_model":"C90 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2032-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-07-23","maker":"Champion","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CHAMPION","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"21101NM","mode_s_code":"52272401","mode_s_hex":"A97501","model":"7EC","n_number":"N70824","name":"HEIDEBRINK JAMES M","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"WELCH","damage":"DEST","date":"1986-07-07","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"ATL86LA188","probable_cause":"","registration":"N70824","state":"WV","summary":"Accident on July 7, 1986 at Welch, WV: serious injuries, destroyed.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N70824 is a Champion 7EC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1959. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Bloomington, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 23, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 17, 1993.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Heidebrink James M, an individual, certificate issued July 23, 2025, expires July 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 17, 1993, 34 years after the 1959 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.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 7EC-377 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N70824 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper J3C-65 (serial 17840, cancelled July 27, 1988). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N70824: Accident on July 7, 1986 at Welch, WV: serious injuries, destroyed. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"7EC-377","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"IL","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"19671 NEWGATE ST","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00164432","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N70824","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1959,"zip":"617055891"}