Bellanca 17-30A
N623AM is a Bellanca 17-30A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in El Paso, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 3, 2017 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 10, 2001.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 17-30A · all 17-30As and related versions
- Serial number
- 79-30928
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1979
- Cruising speed
- 142 mph
- Transponder code
- A8216E (octal 52020556)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 3, 2017
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · July 10, 2001
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00140323
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Melgar Albert T
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 11821 Pete Rose Dr
El Paso, TX 79936-7015
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N623AM, 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 Melgar Albert T, an individual, certificate issued January 3, 2017, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 10, 2001, 22 years after the 1979 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 79-30928 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N623AM was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Nelson Miguel MURPHY SR3500 MOOSE (serial SR123, cancelled April 26, 2011). 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 N623AM: Accident on June 15, 2007 at Roche Harbor, WA: serious 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: Nelson Murphy SR3500 Moose · operated under 091
The jamming of the left brake during landing. A factor was the kit manufacturer's design of the brake system.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA07CA159 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