Bellanca 7GCBC
N7917S is a Bellanca 7GCBC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1976. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Joplin, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 17, 2011 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated July 13, 1976.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 7GCBC · all 7GCBCs and related versions
- Serial number
- 943-76
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- AABF1A (octal 52537432)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 17, 2011
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Acrobatic · July 13, 1976
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00705110
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Nelson Cliff A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 11
Joplin, MT 59531-0011
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N7917S, 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 Nelson Cliff A, an individual, certificate issued August 17, 2011, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated July 13, 1976, consistent with the 1976 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 943-76 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N7917S was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell 47G-4A (serial 7552, cancelled July 8, 1970). 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 N7917S: Accident on February 26, 1983 at Havre, MT: no 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: Bellanca 7GCBC · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN83LA094 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