Bellanca 7GCAA
N5042D is a Bellanca 7GCAA, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Madisonville, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 21, 2016 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated March 29, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 7GCAA · all 7GCAAs and related versions
- Serial number
- 378-79
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- A64B6E (octal 51445556)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 21, 2016
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- April 11, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Acrobatic · March 29, 1979
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00751075
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Collins Wanda
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 1599
Madisonville, TX 77864-6599
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 · 2 clear
The public federal record on N5042D, 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 Collins Wanda, an individual, certificate issued January 21, 2016, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 378-79 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5042D was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 182A (serial 51142, cancelled April 28, 1972). 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 N5042D: Accident on September 2, 2001 at Bridgeport, CA: 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 7GCAA · operated under 091
The failure of the pilot to maintain directional control of the tail wheel equipped aircraft during landing roll which resulted in a ground loop.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX01LA301 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