Bellanca 17-30A
N5683U is a Bellanca 17-30A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Wharton, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 17, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 8, 1972. 1 document is on file: loan release.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 17-30A · all 17-30As and related versions
- Serial number
- 73-30500
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 142 mph
- Transponder code
- A74776 (octal 51643566)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 17, 2023
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · November 8, 1972
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00570784
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mccarver Tyler L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2820 County Road 172
Wharton, TX 77488-8259
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 1
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N5683U, 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 Mccarver Tyler L, an individual, certificate issued March 17, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 73-30500 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5683U was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-140 (serial 2826480, cancelled August 31, 1990). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
1 document received recently: Loan release (September 29, 2026). [3]
1 NTSB record under N5683U: Accident on August 26, 1987 at Hot Springs, AR: 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: Piper PA-28-140 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MKC87LA167 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