Bellanca 17-31ATC
N1285R is a Bellanca 17-31ATC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Orbit Aviation LLC, an LLC in Lakewood, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 25, 2025 and expires on November 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 24, 1971.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 17-31ATC · all 17-31ATCs and related versions
- Serial number
- 31026
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming TI0-540 SER · 310 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 169 mph
- Transponder code
- A07481 (octal 50072201)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 25, 2025
- Expires
- November 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- November 25, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · November 24, 1971
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00130690
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Orbit Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 11435 Elvins St
Lakewood, CA 90715-1215
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N1285R, 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 Orbit Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 25, 2025, expires November 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [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 31026 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1285R 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N1285R. 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 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
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, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data