Bellanca 7GCBC
N8643V is a Bellanca 7GCBC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1975. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Santa Clara, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 3, 2008 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated May 21, 1975.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 7GCBC · all 7GCBCs and related versions
- Serial number
- 817-75
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1975
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- ABE088 (octal 52760210)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 3, 2008
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Acrobatic · May 21, 1975
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00282431
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Luvara Christopher J
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 1365 Buchanan Dr
Santa Clara, CA 95051-3950 - Co-owners
- Luvara Michael S
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.
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The public federal record on N8643V, 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 Luvara Christopher J, a co-owned, certificate issued January 3, 2008, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated May 21, 1975, consistent with the 1975 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 817-75 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8643V 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 N8643V: Accident on February 3, 1995 at San Martin, 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 7GCBC · operated under 091
the failure of the pilot to attain takeoff speed and maintain directional control from a grass airstrip and his improper preflight of the runway for obstructions.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX95LA097 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