Bellanca 7KCAB
N8730V 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 an individual in Petersburg, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 29, 2026 and expires on July 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated June 30, 1975.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 7KCAB · all 7KCABs and related versions
- Serial number
- 526-75
- 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
- AC03E7 (octal 53001747)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 29, 2026
- Expires
- July 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- July 29, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Acrobatic · June 30, 1975
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00752231
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Prater Christopher
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2209 Main St
Petersburg, TX 79250-5019
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 N8730V, 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 Prater Christopher, an individual, certificate issued July 29, 2026, expires July 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated June 30, 1975, consistent with the 1975 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 526-75 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8730V 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 N8730V: Accident on August 23, 2003 at Mckinney, TX: 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's failure to maintain airspeed resulting in an inadvertent stall during landing. A contributing factor was flaring too high.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW03LA206 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
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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