N1703E1946 Aeronca 7AC
Safety record in brief:No NTSB accidents or incidents since 1982No ADs since 1998 matched1 service difficulty report
Registration
FAA Aircraft Registry · Oct 18, 2026- Registered owner
- Individual owner
- City, state
- Columbia, SC
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal
- Airworthiness date
- Apr 14, 1970
We never show street addresses, even though they appear in the public FAA file. Individual owners are shown by city and state only.
Airframe & engine
FAA Registry + type dataAirframe
- Manufacturer
- Aeronca
- Model
- 7AC
- Year
- 1946
- Serial number
- 7AC-5268
- Aircraft type
- Fixed wing single engine
- Category
- Land
- Certification
- Type Certificated
- Seats
- 2
- Engines
- 1
- Max takeoff weight
- Up to 12,499 lb
- Mode S code
- A11BF3
Engine
- Make and model
- Cont Motor A&C65 Series
- Type
- Reciprocating
- Power
- 65 hp
Total time and engine hours aren't public. They appear here once the owner adds logbooks.
Ownership history
Ownership history from FAA records- until nowIndividual ownerColumbia, SC · current
Individual owners are shown by city and state only.
Safety record
NTSB · Oct 15, 2026 · FAA ADs · Oct 18, 2026 · SDRs · Oct 16, 2026NTSB events (0)
No NTSB accidents or incidents found for this airframe since 1982.
Accident history for this modelADs published since 1998 that may apply (0)
These match the airframe or engine model. Whether each one applies, and whether it's been complied with, depends on serial numbers, equipment and logbook entries. Applicability must be confirmed by a mechanic against the aircraft's records.
No ADs published since 1998 matched this airframe or engine model.
AI-extracted — verify against original. Matched from each AD's applicability section; ADs replaced by a later AD are left out.
Service Difficulty Reports (1)
Reports of failures and defects that operators and repair stations sent to the FAA since 1995. A report describes one finding; it is not an accident.
- Wings · spar · crackedJul 2, 2001
FOUND A SMALL LONGITUDINAL CRACK BETWEEN THE PLYWOOD DOUBLER PLATE AT THE FORWARD LIFT STRUT ATTACH FITTING AND THE NEXT OUTBOARD RIB ALONG THE REAR FACE OF THE SPAR. WITH A MIRROR IN THE NEXT OUTBOARD RIB BAY, THE CRACK PROTRUDED ABOUT THREE INCHES. WHEN THE FABRIC WAS REMOVED THE CRACK RAN FROM…
From FAA Service Difficulty Reports; matched by N-number and serial number.
Sources
- FAA Aircraft RegistryRegistration, owner city and state, airframe, engineupdated Oct 18, 2026
- NTSB accident and incident databaseAccidents and incidents since 1982updated Oct 15, 2026
- FAA Airworthiness Directives (Federal Register)ADs published since 1998updated Oct 18, 2026
- FAA Service Difficulty ReportsReports since 1995updated Oct 16, 2026