Bellanca 17-30A
N234DD is a Bellanca 17-30A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1973. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Grand Prairie, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 6, 2023 and expires on June 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 17, 1973.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 17-30A · all 17-30As and related versions
- Serial number
- 73-30528
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1973
- Cruising speed
- 142 mph
- Transponder code
- A217AB (octal 50413653)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 6, 2023
- Expires
- June 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- June 6, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · January 17, 1973
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00030834
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Nunez Christian
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 7404 Tahoe Dr
Grand Prairie, TX 75054-0209
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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N234DD, 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 Nunez Christian, an individual, certificate issued June 6, 2023, expires June 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated January 17, 1973, consistent with the 1973 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 73-30528 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N234DD was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech A24R (serial MC-129, cancelled May 19, 2007). 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 N234DD: Accident on February 8, 2004 at Mena, AR: 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: Beech BE-23 · operated under 091
The loss of engine power for undetermined reasons and the pilot's misjudgment of altitude and distance during the forced landing which resulted in a collision with trees and transmission wires.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW04LA071 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
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