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Bellanca 7KCAB
N88098 is a Bellanca 7KCAB, 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 Whitesburg, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 21, 2026 and expires on March 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated July 22, 1974.
Where is it now Last seen October 7 at 1:00 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 7KCAB · all 7KCABs 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
- 467-74
- 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 IO-320 SERIES · 150 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1974
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- AC2189 (octal 53020611)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 21, 2026
- Expires
- March 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- March 21, 2026
- 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 · July 22, 1974
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00622001
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Merriwether David e
- 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
- 236 Consolation Church Rd
Whitesburg, GA 30185-2222
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N88098 links to the rest of the register
- Bellanca 7 Citabria 1,227 registered
- Bellanca 2,699 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 IO-320 series 1,708 aircraft with this engine series · 150 hp
- Whitesburg, GA 14 aircraft registered in this town
- Georgia 8,807 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 IO-320 series 31 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-320 series 43 reports since 1995
- Where N88098 is now · Last seen October 7 at 1:00 pm.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N88098.json.
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The public federal record on N88098, 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 Merriwether David e, an individual, certificate issued March 21, 2026, expires March 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated July 22, 1974, consistent with the 1974 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 467-74 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N88098 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper J3C-65 (serial 15716, cancelled July 6, 1956). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N88098. 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 November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data