American Champion Citabria Aurora

The American Champion Citabria Aurora is the current name of the model 7ECA, the entry level two-seat Citabria, a light single-engine airplane with tandem seating and fixed conventional landing gear, built for flight training, utility flying and personal use and able to sustain aerobatic loads from plus 5 g to minus 2 g. Champion Aircraft put the 7ECA into production in 1964 with a 100 horsepower Continental engine, soon offered a 115 horsepower Lycoming as an alternative, and switched to spring steel main gear legs in 1967. Bellanca called it the Citabria Standard. American Champion reintroduced the 7ECA in 1995 as the Aurora, the biggest change being metal-spar wings, and moved to aluminum main gear legs in 2004.