Bellanca 7GCBC
N617W 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 co-owned owners in Seminole, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 1, 2016 and expires on June 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated August 30, 1973.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 7GCBC · all 7GCBCs and related versions
- Serial number
- 579-73
- 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
- A80AB3 (octal 52005263)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 1, 2016
- Expires
- June 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 11, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Acrobatic · August 30, 1973
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00993233
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wood Jim
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- PO Box 1423
Seminole, TX 79360-1423 - Co-owners
- Wood Gale
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.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N617W, 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 Wood Jim, a co-owned, certificate issued June 1, 2016, expires June 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated August 30, 1973, consistent with the 1973 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 579-73 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N617W 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N617W. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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