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Bellanca 7ECA
N11648 is a Bellanca 7ECA, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an owner whose details are withheld at their request. The FAA lists the registration as "n-number assigned but not yet registered". It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 23, 1972.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 7ECA · all 7ECAs 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
- 838-72
- 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 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- A04582 (octal 50042602)
Registration
- Status
- N-number assigned but not yet registeredFAA registration status code 2 (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- November 3, 2026
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 23, 1972
- FAA region
- —
- FAA record id
- 00211220
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Withheld at the owner's request
- Type
- —
- Address
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 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N11648 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-235 series 6,132 aircraft with this engine series · 115 hp
- 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-235 series 13 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-235 series 20 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N11648.json.
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The public federal record on N11648, 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.
Registration status is "N-number assigned but not yet registered". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 838-72 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N11648 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Pitcairn Autogyro Co Inc PAA-1 (serial 72, cancelled May 12, 1932). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
1 NTSB record under N11648: Accident on August 31, 2023 at Midlothian, TX: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bellanca 7ECA · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during landing which resulted in the right main landing gear collapse.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 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 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data