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N31298

Bellanca 7ECA

Valid South Carolina

N31298 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 an individual in Chesterfield, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 29, 2025 and expires on April 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated December 14, 1972. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).

Aircraft

Maker
Bellanca
Model
7ECA · all 7ECAs and related versions
Serial number
891-73
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
A351F3 (octal 50650763)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 29, 2025
Expires
April 30, 2032
Last FAA action
April 29, 2025
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Acrobatic · December 14, 1972
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00731473

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Rivers Jerry M
Type
Individual
Address
367 Indian Creek Ln
Chesterfield, SC 29709-7226

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Documents on file 1

2026-09-21Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)

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The public federal record on N31298, 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 Rivers Jerry M, an individual, certificate issued April 29, 2025, expires April 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated December 14, 1972, consistent with the 1972 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 891-73 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N31298 according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 21, 2026). [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N31298. 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.

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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data