Bellanca 7GCAA
N5501A is a Bellanca 7GCAA, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Profly LLC, an LLC in Wichita Falls, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 25, 2025 and expires on June 30, 2032. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; aerial advertising, dated May 28, 1983.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 7GCAA · all 7GCAAs and related versions
- Serial number
- 360-78
- 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
- A701E7 (octal 51600747)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 25, 2025
- Expires
- June 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- June 25, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Aerial advertising · May 28, 1983
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00383385
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Profly LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 7 Paluxy Cir
Wichita Falls, TX 76309-1428
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N5501A, 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 Profly LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 25, 2025, expires June 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 28, 1983, 5 years after the 1978 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 360-78 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5501A was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Boeing 247D (serial 1702, cancelled May 8, 1970). 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 N5501A: Accident on September 4, 2006 at Farmingdale, NC: 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
An inadequate annual inspection of the airplane, which resulted in a total failure of the elevator cable during flight, and subsequent uncontrolled descent into terrain.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC06CA218 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