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Bellanca 7GCBC
N8556V is a Bellanca 7GCBC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1974. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Pioneer, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 20, 1983 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated November 6, 1974.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 7GCBC · all 7GCBCs and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. Wooden wing spars on most Bellanca-built Citabrias. This is how the Bellanca 7 Citabria family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 794-75
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1974
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- ABBD29 (octal 52736451)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 20, 1983
- Expires
- December 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Normal; AcrobaticFAA certificate purpose code NA (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 6, 1974
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00992681
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Paris Charles F
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 7763 Highway 17
Pioneer, LA 71266-9408
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N8556V links to the rest of the register
- Bellanca 7 Citabria 1,226 registered
- Bellanca 2,698 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-320 series 27,313 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Pioneer, LA 3 aircraft registered in this town
- Louisiana 3,733 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Bellanca 7 Citabria 1 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Bellanca 7 Citabria 7 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-320 series 29 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-320 series 349 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N8556V, 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 Paris Charles F, an individual, certificate issued July 20, 1983, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated November 6, 1974, consistent with the 1974 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 794-75 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8556V 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 N8556V. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data