Aeronca

The Aeronca Aircraft Corporation was founded November 11, 1928, in Cincinnati, Ohio. From 1928 to 1951 it was a major producer of general aviation aircraft and it also produced the engines for some of their early designs. Aeronca is a contraction of Aeronautical Corporation of America.
In 1937 there was a major flood at the Lunken Airport, resulting in the entire airport area being washed away. Aeronca's factory was destroyed, along with the tooling and almost all of the very early blueprints and drawings. At this time a decision was made to move the operation to a more stable area in Middletown, Ohio. In 1951 Aeronca ceased light aircraft production.
From 2011 Aeronca is a division of Magellan Aerospace, producing aircraft, missile, and space vehicle components at the same location adjacent to Middletown's Hook Field Municipal Airport.

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Aeronca 7AC Champion

The Aeronca Model 7 Champion, commonly known as the "Champ", or "Airknocker", is a single-engine light airplane with a high wing, generally configured with fixed conventional landing gear and tandem seating for two occupants. Designed for flight training and personal use and specifically developed to compete with the popular Piper Cub, it entered production in the United States in 1945, spawning one of the most popular, and longest-produced, light airplane models in the world.
In 1954 Aeronca sold the Champion design to the new Champion Aircraft Corporation of Osceola, Wisconsin, which continued building variants of the Champion as well as the derivative design, the Citabria. The venerable aircraft design was acquired by the Bellanca Aircraft Company in 1970 and by American Champion in 1988. It returned to production in 2007 until mid 2019.

Aeronca 7AC Champion, registration N1079E, built 1959, serial number 7AC-4632
Ede, Netherlands, 23 August 2019

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