Bellanca 7GCBC
N5500L is a Bellanca 7GCBC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Salem, New Jersey. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 21, 2003 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated June 7, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 7GCBC · all 7GCBCs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1032-78
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- A701CE (octal 51600716)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 21, 2003
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Acrobatic · June 7, 1978
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00573395
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Winchell Lawrence R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 52 Frank Smith Rd
Salem, NJ 08079-3452
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 N5500L, 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 Winchell Lawrence R, an individual, certificate issued March 21, 2003, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated June 7, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1032-78 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5500L was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Lockheed 1329-23E (serial 5136, cancelled October 22, 1969). 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 N5500L: Accident on September 9, 1997 at Columbus, MT: 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 7GCBC · operated under 091
the pilot passenger failed to maintain clearance from the power line.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA97LA208 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