Bellanca 7ECA
N5068K is a Bellanca 7ECA, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Avon, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 17, 1999 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated December 31, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 7ECA · all 7ECAs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1338-80
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1979
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- A653B4 (octal 51451664)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 17, 1999
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 13, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Acrobatic · December 31, 1979
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00181165
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mcclung Matthew T
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 6622 Woodridge Dr
Avon, IN 46123-8322
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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 N5068K, 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 Mcclung Matthew T, an individual, certificate issued April 17, 1999, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated December 31, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1338-80 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5068K 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 N5068K: Accident on August 1, 1995 at Naperville, IL: 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 7ECA · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during the takeoff roll. Contributing factors were the pilot's lack or recent experience in tailwheel equipped aircraft and failure to abort the takeoff early enough to prevent the accident.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI95LA256 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