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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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 7GCBC · all 7GCBCs and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. Wooden wing spars on most Bellanca-built Citabrias. This is how the Bellanca 7 Citabria family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 512-73
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1973
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- A760AD (octal 51660255)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 6, 2015
- Expires
- November 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 23, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Normal; AcrobaticFAA certificate purpose code NA (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 25, 1973
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00070666
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kutztown Aviation Service INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- 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
Connections how N57472 links to the rest of the register
- Bellanca 7 Citabria 1,227 registered
- Bellanca 2,699 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-320 series 27,303 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Kutztown Aviation Service INC 5 aircraft in the fleet
- Germansville, PA 19 aircraft registered in this town
- Flying M Aerodrome · P91
- Pennsylvania 6,195 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Bellanca 7 Citabria 1 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Bellanca 7 Citabria 7 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-320 series 29 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-320 series 349 reports since 1995
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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.
Valid registration to Kutztown Aviation Service INC, a corporation, certificate issued November 6, 2015, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated May 25, 1973, consistent with the 1973 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 512-73 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
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]
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 N57472: Accident on July 12, 1992 at Bally, PA: serious injuries, destroyed. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bellanca 7GCBC · operated under 091
THE PILOT FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL DURING TAKEOFF.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data