Bellanca 17-31ATC
N9516E is a Bellanca 17-31ATC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1976. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in New Lenox, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 24, 2018 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 13, 1976.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 17-31ATC · all 17-31ATCs and related versions
- Serial number
- 76-31133
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming TI0-540 SER · 310 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 169 mph
- Transponder code
- AD3B8D (octal 53235615)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 24, 2018
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · October 13, 1976
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00281173
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sabo John D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 114 Oak Dr
New Lenox, IL 60451-1744
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
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The public federal record on N9516E, 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 Sabo John D, an individual, certificate issued September 24, 2018, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated October 13, 1976, consistent with the 1976 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 76-31133 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9516E was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aeronca 11AC (serial 11AC-1152, cancelled May 1, 1957). 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 N9516E: Accident on November 3, 1993 at Pagosa Springs, CO: 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 BL17-31ATC · operated under 091
FAILURE BY THE PILOT IN COMMAND TO MAINTAIN CONTROL OF THE AIRCRAFT DURING LANDING ROLL.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 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