Bellanca 14-19-3
N1257R is a Bellanca 14-19-3, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1966. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Whitefish, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 9, 2026 and expires on June 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 23, 1966.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 14-19-3 · all 14-19-3s and related versions
- Serial number
- 4325
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor I0-470 SERIES · 260 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1966
- Cruising speed
- 152 mph
- Transponder code
- A069A2 (octal 50064642)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 9, 2026
- Expires
- June 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- June 9, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · November 23, 1966
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00700610
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wells Carolyn B
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 479 Armory Rd
Whitefish, MT 59937-8143
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N1257R, 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 Wells Carolyn B, an individual, certificate issued June 9, 2026, expires June 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated November 23, 1966, consistent with the 1966 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4325 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1257R according to the deregistered file. [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 N1257R: Accident on August 10, 2021 at Whitefish, MT: 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 14-19-3 · operated under 091
A total loss of engine power due to fuel starvation. Contributing to the accident was the pilot’s failure to accomplish a preflight inspection.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR21LA315 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data