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N4163Y

Bellanca 7GCBC

Valid Tennessee

N4163Y is a Bellanca 7GCBC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Maryville, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 4, 2024 and expires on October 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated December 15, 1976.

Aircraft

Maker
Bellanca
Model
7GCBC · all 7GCBCs and related versions
Serial number
959-77
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
90 mph
Transponder code
A4ED42 (octal 51166502)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 4, 2024
Expires
October 31, 2031
Last FAA action
October 4, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Acrobatic · December 15, 1976
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00221544

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Wachter Bruce A
Type
Individual
Address
3810 Countryside Ct
Maryville, TN 37804-3859

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N4163Y, 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 Wachter Bruce A, an individual, certificate issued October 4, 2024, expires October 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 959-77 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N4163Y 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N4163Y: Accident on April 18, 1983 at Middleboro, MA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

NYC83LA108Accident on April 18, 1983 at Middleboro, MA: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bellanca 7GBC · operated under 091

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC83LA108 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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