Description:
1956 Aeronca Champ 7EC serial 532, N7474B
Continental C90-12F engine
• 4 x New Superior Millennium Cylinders
• 4 x new pistons, pins, valves, springs
• Rockers rebuilt by Aircraft Specialties
• TSMOH – 607.6
• TSPOH – 41.7
• Time is fluid – still flying
• Bendix Mags
TTAF – 2474.3 – Time is fluid – still flying
Citabria windshield
Last annual – 4/26
Hooker Harnesses front and back
800 x 6 tires with Cleveland Brakes
ADSB Out
Full electrical system
• Starter
• Alternator/voltage regulator
• Battery
• Nav Lights
• Beacon
Ceconite fabric
Metal Prop
Heel brakes
Scott 2400 Tailwheel w/pneumatic tire
Gross weight 1450
Empty weight – 1018
Fuel – 26 gallons total – 2 x 13 gallons each wing. No header Tank.
Bubble windows each side
Panel includes Garmin GNC-250 and Bendix transponder w/encoder
Bracket Air Intake
List/copies of 337’s back to 1956
Hangared
If you have questions email [email protected] or call.
Here’s the story on this Champ. I’ve had a ball with it but recently bought a Cessna 175. Need the room in the hangar.
New top overhaul with new cylinders, pistons, rings and valves/valve springs.
Extensive work has been done to bring it to the original type certificate. I even added a new head muff, duct and firewall valve. It’s a great, straight airplane.
Spars – they are wood laminate spars from AC Spruce. My IA and I, a Champ rebuilder, and everyone else that wanted to have inspected them. No cracks. Look for yourself. Research them.
From what I was told, the airplane was rebuilt in the early 2000’s with new spars and fabric. However, the original logs vanished. All the logs and times reconstructed using the 337’s. So, I have no proof other than the 337’s say it was covered in silk, but it’s covered in Ceconite. So, inspect it for yourself.
I didn’t like the fact that the logs were incomplete/reconstructed, but I bought it anyway. Meticulously taken care of and hangered since I bought it. Everything works as it should right down to the fuel valve (they stick if you don’t lube them every year).
Tracks straight and is easy to land. Not going to win any speed records, but you can push it a bit and cruise at 100 mph. I don’t. It’s a Champ.
It has big tires and a great tailwheel, but if you think your going to win the next STOL competition, I’d rethink that, but they really help on the dirt and grass.
Engine accessory case was completely redone to fix the loss of oil causing no oil pressure at the hot start-up. Works great now.
I fly it often enough, but am putting my time in the Cessna for an instrument rating.
