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Bellanca 7GCBC
N1138E is a Bellanca 7GCBC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1977. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Gemfire Ventures LLC, an LLC in Saint Petersburg, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 21, 2026 and expires on June 30, 2033. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for aerial advertising, dated May 8, 2014. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Where is it now Last seen October 31 at 5:15 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 7GCBC · all 7GCBCs and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. Wooden wing spars on most Bellanca-built Citabrias. This is how the Bellanca 7 Citabria family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 985-77
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming O-320-A2D · 150 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- A03ACD (octal 50035315)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 21, 2026
- Expires
- June 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- June 21, 2026
- Airworthiness
- RestrictedFAA airworthiness class code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Aerial advertisingFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 8, 2014
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00991130
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gemfire Ventures LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 7901 4Th St N Ste 300
Saint Petersburg, FL 33702-4399
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 1
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N1138E links to the rest of the register
- Bellanca 7 Citabria 1,227 registered
- Bellanca 2,699 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-320-A2D 13 aircraft with this engine series · 150 hp
- Gemfire Ventures LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Saint Petersburg, FL 229 aircraft registered in this town
- Florida 21,708 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Bellanca 7 Citabria 1 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Bellanca 7 Citabria 7 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-320-A2D 17 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-320-A2D 17 reports since 1995
- Where N1138E is now · Last seen October 31 at 5:15 pm.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N1138E.json.
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The public federal record on N1138E, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Gemfire Ventures LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 21, 2026, expires June 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 8, 2014, 37 years after the 1977 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 985-77 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1138E was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aeronca 7AC (serial 7AC-4694, cancelled October 5, 1955). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (November 3, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N1138E. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 11, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data