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N7775S

Bellanca 8GCBC

Valid Wisconsin

N7775S is a Bellanca 8GCBC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1976. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 9, 2004 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 27, 1976.

Aircraft

Maker
Bellanca
Model
8GCBC · all 8GCBCs and related versions
Serial number
227-76
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
Seats
3
Year built
1976
Cruising speed
101 mph
Transponder code
AA8620 (octal 52503040)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 9, 2004
Expires
May 31, 2029
Last FAA action
August 4, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · July 27, 1976
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00054770

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Wildes Thomas
Type
Individual
Address
962 Parkland Dr
Chippewa Falls, WI 54729-5084

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

1969-12-03Schweizer SGS 2-33A · exported to Canada · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N7775S, 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 Wildes Thomas, an individual, certificate issued January 9, 2004, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated July 27, 1976, consistent with the 1976 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 227-76 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N7775S was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Schweizer SGS 2-33A (serial 145, cancelled December 3, 1969). 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 N7775S: Accident on April 17, 1989 at Shell Lake, WI: no injuries, substantial damage. 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

CHI89TL#02Accident on April 17, 1989 at Shell Lake, WI: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bellanca BGCBC · operated under PUBU

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI89TL#02 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