Bellanca 7ECA
N5026K is a Bellanca 7ECA, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Port Townsend, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 13, 2019 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated October 11, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 7ECA · all 7ECAs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1278-78
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- A64492 (octal 51442222)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 13, 2019
- Expires
- May 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Acrobatic · October 11, 1978
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00820995
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Griswold David M
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 2205 Landes St
Port Townsend, WA 98368-7817 - Co-owners
- Kopp Kimberly M
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N5026K, 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 Griswold David M, a co-owned, certificate issued May 13, 2019, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated October 11, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1278-78 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5026K was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Douglas DC-6B (serial 44426, cancelled June 18, 1970). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N5026K: Accident on July 15, 1996 at Belle Plaine, MN: serious 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 pilot's misjudgment of the distance and speed during the landing, and his delay in initiating a go-around. Factors relating to the accident were: the tall grass and ravine at the end of the runway.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI96LA242 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