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N57472

Bellanca 7GCBC

N57472 is a Bellanca 7GCBC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1973. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Kutztown Aviation Service INC, a corporation in Germansville, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 6, 2015 and expires on November 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated May 25, 1973.

Aircraft

Maker
Bellanca
Model
7GCBC · all 7GCBCs and related versions
Serial number
512-73
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1973
Cruising speed
90 mph
Transponder code
A760AD (octal 51660255)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
November 6, 2015
Expires
November 30, 2028
Last FAA action
June 23, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Acrobatic · May 25, 1973
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00070666

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Kutztown Aviation Service INC
Type
Corporation
Address
PO Box 65
Germansville, PA 18053-0065

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 1

1955-04-01Consolidated Vultee BT-13A · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N57472, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Kutztown Aviation Service INC, a corporation, certificate issued November 6, 2015, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated May 25, 1973, consistent with the 1973 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 512-73 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N57472 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Consolidated Vultee BT-13A (serial 5183, cancelled April 1, 1955). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N57472: Accident on July 12, 1992 at Bally, PA: serious injuries, destroyed. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

BFO92LA098Accident on July 12, 1992 at Bally, PA: serious injuries, destroyed.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bellanca 7GCBC · operated under 091

THE PILOT FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL DURING TAKEOFF.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for BFO92LA098 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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