Bellanca 7KCAB
N8717V is a Bellanca 7KCAB, 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 Mebane, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 30, 2004 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; aerial advertising, dated May 27, 1977.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 7KCAB · all 7KCABs and related versions
- Serial number
- 523-75
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-320 SERIES · 150 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1975
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- ABFD6E (octal 52776556)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 30, 2004
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Aerial advertising · May 27, 1977
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00452241
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sepko Joseph M III
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 5435 Brown Stone Dr
Mebane, NC 27302-7750 - Co-owners
- Sepko Craig R
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 N8717V, 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 Sepko Joseph M III, a co-owned, certificate issued August 30, 2004, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Multiple certificate for standard; restricted; aerial advertising, dated May 27, 1977, consistent with the 1975 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 523-75 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8717V 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 N8717V: Accident on June 29, 2004 at Casa Grande, AZ: 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 7KCAB · operated under 091
the pilot misjudged the flare resulting in a bounced landing. Also causal was the pilot's inadequate recovery from the bounced landing resulting in a loss of directional control.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX04CA252 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