Bellanca 7GCBC
N88273 is a Bellanca 7GCBC, 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 Wasilla, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 12, 2010 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated September 12, 1974.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 7GCBC · all 7GCBCs and related versions
- Serial number
- 755-74
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1974
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- AC28AC (octal 53024254)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 12, 2010
- Expires
- May 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Acrobatic · September 12, 1974
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00201931
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Pettijohn Patton D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 870067
Wasilla, AK 99687-0067
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N88273, 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 Pettijohn Patton D, an individual, certificate issued January 12, 2010, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated September 12, 1974, consistent with the 1974 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 755-74 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N88273 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper J3C-65 (serial 15891, cancelled October 1, 1952). 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]
1 NTSB record under N88273: Accident on July 6, 1989 at Killey River, AK: 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 PILOT FAILED TO ASSURE SUFFICIENT ALT WAS OBTAINED TO COMPENSATE FOR THE DOWNDRAFTS NEAR THE RIDGE LINE.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC89LA116 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