Bellanca 7GCBC
N289PS is a Bellanca 7GCBC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1972. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Willkris Aviation Services LLC, an LLC in Smithfield, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 7, 2026 and expires on September 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for acrobatic, dated December 8, 1994.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 7GCBC · all 7GCBCs and related versions
- Serial number
- 370-72
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1972
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- A2F0C0 (octal 50570300)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 7, 2026
- Expires
- September 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- September 7, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Acrobatic · December 8, 1994
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00355182
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Willkris Aviation Services LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 213 Keswick Pl
Smithfield, VA 23430-6034
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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 N289PS, 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 Willkris Aviation Services LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 7, 2026, expires September 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 8, 1994, 22 years after the 1972 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 370-72 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N289PS 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 N289PS: Accident on October 4, 2025 at Reedville, VA: minor 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 7GCBC · operated under 091
The pilot’s sudden incapacitation by an episode of abnormal heartbeat due to heart disease during a takeoff attempt, which resulted in a loss of directional control and runway excursion.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA26LA005 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