Bellanca 7ECA
N88243 is a Bellanca 7ECA, 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 Mc Alpin, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 27, 2016 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated August 20, 1974.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 7ECA · all 7ECAs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1045-74
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1974
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- AC2843 (octal 53024103)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 27, 2016
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Acrobatic · August 20, 1974
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00651951
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Newbegin James T
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 18053 75Th Pl
Mc Alpin, FL 32062-2711
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
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N88243, 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 Newbegin James T, an individual, certificate issued October 27, 2016, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated August 20, 1974, consistent with the 1974 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1045-74 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N88243 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper J3C-65 (serial 15860, cancelled September 2, 1953). 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 N88243. 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 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