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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 17-30A · all 17-30As and related versions
- Serial number
- 76-30822
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 142 mph
- Transponder code
- A4BB38 (octal 51135470)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 1, 2025
- Expires
- December 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- December 1, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00151104
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Harris James Thomas
- Type
- Partnership
- 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.
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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]
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 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 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 September 30, 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