Bellanca 7ECA
N53874 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 Dover, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 19, 2011 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated November 26, 1975.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 7ECA · all 7ECAs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1135-76
- 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
- A6D18F (octal 51550617)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 19, 2011
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Acrobatic · November 26, 1975
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00092965
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sloan Donald W
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1340 Persimmon Tree Ln
Dover, DE 19901-1321
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 N53874, 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 Sloan Donald W, an individual, certificate issued January 19, 2011, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated November 26, 1975, consistent with the 1975 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1135-76 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N53874 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Fairchild M-62A (serial T41-642, cancelled January 6, 1955). 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 N53874: Accident on March 25, 2007 at Wawayanda, NY: minor 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
A failure of the crankshaft idler gear, which resulted in a total loss of engine power while maneuvering.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC07LA086 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