Bellanca 17-30A
N4038B is a Bellanca 17-30A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1976. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Harris James Thomas, a partnership in Churubusco, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 1, 2025 and expires on December 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 17-30A · all 17-30As and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube, wood and fabricA welded steel-tube fuselage and wooden wings, all covered in fabric: the construction of the 1930s and 1940s, which makes wood rot and fabric age the inspection items. The Viking's wings are wood, which is why its inspections matter. This is how the Bellanca 17 Viking family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 76-30822
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 142 mph
- Transponder code
- A4BB38 (octal 51135470)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 1, 2025
- Expires
- December 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- December 1, 2025
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00151104
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Harris James Thomas
- Type
- PartnershipFAA type of owner code 2 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 18810 Fogel Rd
Churubusco, IN 46723-9261 - Co-owners
- Harris Sylvia Marie
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.
Connections how N4038B links to the rest of the register
- Bellanca 17 Viking 628 registered
- Bellanca 2,699 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube, wood and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental IO-520 series 9,485 aircraft with this engine series · 285 hp
- Harris James Thomas 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Churubusco, IN 25 aircraft registered in this town
- Indiana 5,704 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Bellanca 17 Viking 18 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Bellanca 17 Viking 44 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Bellanca 17 Viking 208 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental IO-520 series 30 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental IO-520 series 465 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Extension Assy, separated · 1998-06-18
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The public federal record on N4038B, 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 Harris James Thomas, a partnership, certificate issued December 1, 2025, expires December 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 76-30822 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4038B 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 N4038B: Accident on June 18, 1998 at Shreveport, LA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bellanca 17-30A · operated under 091
The collapsed nose gear as a result of failure of the nose gear locking mechanism.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data