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Bellanca 7KCAB
N88476 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 Bmg Aviation INC, a corporation in Bloomington, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 17, 2006 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated October 28, 1974.
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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
- 495-75
- 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
- AC301D (octal 53030035)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 17, 2006
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- 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 · October 28, 1974
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00611871
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bmg Aviation INC (flight school: its whole fleet and safety record)
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 952 S Kirby Rd
Bloomington, IN 47403-9392
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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 N88476 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 1,709 aircraft with this engine series · 150 hp
- Bmg Aviation INC 6 aircraft in the fleet
- Bloomington, IN 99 aircraft registered in this town
- Monroe County · BMG
- Lake Monroe Seaplane Base · 07I
- Indiana 5,702 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
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The public federal record on N88476, 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 Bmg Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 17, 2006, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated October 28, 1974, consistent with the 1974 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 495-75 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N88476 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper J3C-65 (serial 16100, cancelled October 2, 1950). 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 N88476. 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 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 9, 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 9, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data