Bellanca 17-30A
N8290R is a Bellanca 17-30A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1972. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Bakersfield, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 23, 1988 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 14, 1972.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 17-30A · all 17-30As and related versions
- Serial number
- 30481
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1972
- Cruising speed
- 142 mph
- Transponder code
- AB54B2 (octal 52652262)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 23, 1988
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 14, 1972
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00103511
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hunt George Richard
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1908 Wedgemont Pl
Bakersfield, CA 93311-2967
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N8290R, 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 Hunt George Richard, an individual, certificate issued July 23, 1988, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated September 14, 1972, consistent with the 1972 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 30481 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8290R 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]
1 NTSB record under N8290R: Accident on February 26, 1991 at Coalinga, CA: 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 17-30A · operated under 091
FUEL STARVATION AND THE IMPROPER USE OF THE FUEL SELECTOR BY THE PILOT. THE ROUGH TERRAIN ON WHICH THE AIRCRAFT LANDED WAS A FACTOR IN THE ACCIDENT.
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- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data