{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2014-02-19","airworthiness_ops":"Normal; Acrobatic","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2014-03-31","city":"LONGVIEW","country_code":"US","county_code":"183","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"42036","engine_horsepower":118,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"O-235-K2C","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-03-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-10-13","maker":"American Champion Aircraft","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"AMERICAN CHAMPION AIRCRAFT","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2120003","mode_s_code":"52542044","mode_s_hex":"AAC424","model":"7ECA","n_number":"N793L","name":"LETOURNEAU UNIVERSITY","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Longview","damage":"SUBS","date":"2024-04-12","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"CEN24LA162","probable_cause":"The rudder post\u2019s failure due to corrosion fatigue. Contributing to the accident were the misalignment of the rudder hinge components, which produced mechanical binding and elevated localized stress, and a compromised the protective coating, which allowed corrosion to accelerate fatigue cracking.","registration":"N793L","state":"TX","summary":"Accident on April 12, 2024 at Longview, TX: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N793L is an American Champion Aircraft 7ECA, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2014. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Letourneau University, a corporation in Longview, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 31, 2014 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated February 19, 2014.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Letourneau University, a corporation, certificate issued March 31, 2014, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated February 19, 2014, consistent with the 2014 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1409-2014 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N793L according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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 N793L: Accident on April 12, 2024 at Longview, TX: no injuries, substantial damage. 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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":2,"serial_number":"1409-2014","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 7001","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"01137858","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N793L","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2014,"zip":"756077001"}