Bellanca 7ECA
N57430 is a Bellanca 7ECA, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1973. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Council Bluffs, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 25, 2018 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated May 15, 1973.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 7ECA · all 7ECAs and related versions
- Serial number
- 944-73
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1973
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- A7601F (octal 51660037)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 25, 2018
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Acrobatic · May 15, 1973
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00350656
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Swanson Michael D
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 22242 Mudhollow Rd
Council Bluffs, IA 51503-8386 - Co-owners
- Swanson Martha J
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N57430, 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 Swanson Michael D, a co-owned, certificate issued September 25, 2018, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated May 15, 1973, consistent with the 1973 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 944-73 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N57430 according to the deregistered file. [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]
2 NTSB records under N57430: Accident on July 3, 2004 at North Creek, NY: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on August 7, 1988 at Kingsland, TX: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bellanca 7ECA · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll. A factor in this accident was the pilot's lack of experience in tail-wheeled airplanes.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC04CA155 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bellanca 7ECA · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW88LA144 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