Bellanca 7ECA
N31281 is a Bellanca 7ECA, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1972. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Citabria 1972 LLC, an LLC in Soldotna, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 13, 2025 and expires on June 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated November 15, 1972.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 7ECA · all 7ECAs and related versions
- Serial number
- 888-72
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1972
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- A351C9 (octal 50650711)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 13, 2025
- Expires
- June 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- June 13, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Acrobatic · November 15, 1972
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00541473
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Citabria 1972 LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 33895 Keystone Dr
Soldotna, AK 99669-8534
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.
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The public federal record on N31281, 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 Citabria 1972 LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 13, 2025, expires June 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated November 15, 1972, consistent with the 1972 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 888-72 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N31281 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 N31281: Accident on November 4, 2012 at Kenai, AK: 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: Bellanca 7ECA · operated under 091
The loss of engine power due to carburetor icing and the pilot's failure to apply carburetor heat when he reduced engine power.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC13LA008 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