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N53871

Bellanca 7ECA

Valid Alabama

N53871 is a Bellanca 7ECA, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1975. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 4, 2020 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated October 31, 1975.

Aircraft

Maker
Bellanca
Model
7ECA · all 7ECAs and related versions
Serial number
1133-76
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1975
Cruising speed
90 mph
Transponder code
A6D18C (octal 51550614)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 4, 2020
Expires
June 30, 2027
Last FAA action
January 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Acrobatic · October 31, 1975
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00792965

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Walker Benjamin L
Type
Individual
Address
104 Meredith Dr
Muscle Shoals, AL 35661-1461

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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 · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N53871, 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 Walker Benjamin L, an individual, certificate issued June 4, 2020, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated October 31, 1975, consistent with the 1975 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1133-76 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N53871 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N53871. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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