Bellanca 17-30A
N1979B is a Bellanca 17-30A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Hereford, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 10, 2021 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 27, 1979. 2 documents are on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership), loan release.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 17-30A · all 17-30As and related versions
- Serial number
- 79-30925
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1979
- Cruising speed
- 142 mph
- Transponder code
- A185C1 (octal 50302701)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 10, 2021
- Expires
- June 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 19, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · February 27, 1979
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00403070
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Link John E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1712 Plains Ave
Hereford, TX 79045-3712
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 2
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N1979B, 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 Link John E, an individual, certificate issued June 10, 2021, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated February 27, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 79-30925 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1979B was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Luscombe 8A (serial 6406, cancelled October 4, 1961). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
2 documents received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 3, 2026), Loan release (September 3, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N1979B. 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 September 30, 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