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N31270

Bellanca 7ACA

N31270 is a Bellanca 7ACA, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1972. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Santa Ynez, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 31, 2005 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 6, 1972.

Aircraft

Maker
Bellanca
Model
7ACA · all 7ACAs and related versions
Serial number
68-72
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Franklin 2A4 SERIES · 49 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1972
Cruising speed
71 mph
Transponder code
A351A5 (octal 50650645)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 31, 2005
Expires
July 31, 2028
Last FAA action
May 26, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · November 6, 1972
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00111493

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Kunkle James K
Type
Individual
Address
PO Box 1809
Santa Ynez, CA 93460-1809

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.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N31270, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Kunkle James K, an individual, certificate issued October 31, 2005, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated November 6, 1972, consistent with the 1972 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 68-72 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N31270 according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N31270. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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