Bellanca 7GCBC
N5505H 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 Lake Elmo, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 25, 2018 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated July 26, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 7GCBC · all 7GCBCs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1038-78
- 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
- A7027A (octal 51601172)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 25, 2018
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Acrobatic · July 26, 1978
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00253395
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kupferschmidt W Alan Trustee
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2769 Legion Ave N
Lake Elmo, MN 55042-9457
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 N5505H, 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 Kupferschmidt W Alan Trustee, an individual, certificate issued August 25, 2018, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated July 26, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1038-78 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5505H was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-11 (serial 11-1006, cancelled July 9, 1951). 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 N5505H: Accident on September 28, 1991 at Kaycee, WY: 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
INADEQUATE CLEARANCE WITH THE VEHICLE AND THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO OBTAIN PROPER ASSISTANCE FOR THE TAKEOFF. FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACCIDENT WERE 1) THE PILOT'S INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PLANNING, 2) THE VEHICLE, AND 3) HIGH DENSITY ALTITUDE CONDITIONS.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA91LA254 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