Bellanca 17-30A
N8871V is a Bellanca 17-30A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1972. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Lavelle Aircraft LLC, an LLC in Berrien Springs, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 28, 2024 and expires on January 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 4, 1972.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 17-30A · all 17-30As and related versions
- Serial number
- 30427
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1972
- Cruising speed
- 142 mph
- Transponder code
- AC3A65 (octal 53035145)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 28, 2024
- Expires
- January 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- January 28, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · February 4, 1972
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00291841
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lavelle Aircraft LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 11309 Red Bud Trl
Berrien Springs, MI 49103-9217
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N8871V, 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 Lavelle Aircraft LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 28, 2024, expires January 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated February 4, 1972, consistent with the 1972 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 30427 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8871V 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N8871V. 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