Bellanca 17-30A
N9553E is a Bellanca 17-30A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1976. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Lancaster, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 11, 2026 and expires on October 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 16, 1989.
Where is it now Last seen October 29 at 12:07 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 17-30A · all 17-30As and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube, wood and fabricA welded steel-tube fuselage and wooden wings, all covered in fabric: the construction of the 1930s and 1940s, which makes wood rot and fabric age the inspection items. The Viking's wings are wood, which is why its inspections matter. This is how the Bellanca 17 Viking 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
- 76-30830
- 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 · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 142 mph
- Transponder code
- AD4A00 (octal 53245000)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 11, 2026
- Expires
- October 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- October 11, 2026
- 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 16, 1989
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00554600
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Watson Glenn G
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 6817 W Avenue H12
Lancaster, CA 93536-8398 - Co-owners
- Mikal John A
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.
Connections how N9553E links to the rest of the register
- Bellanca 17 Viking 628 registered
- Bellanca 2,699 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube, wood and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental IO-520 series 9,482 aircraft with this engine series · 285 hp
- Lancaster, CA 114 aircraft registered in this town
- General WM J Fox Airfield · WJF
- California 28,158 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Bellanca 17 Viking 18 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Bellanca 17 Viking 44 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Bellanca 17 Viking 208 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental IO-520 series 30 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental IO-520 series 465 reports since 1995
- Where N9553E is now · Last seen October 29 at 12:07 pm.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N9553E.json.
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The public federal record on N9553E, 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 Watson Glenn G, a co-owned, certificate issued October 11, 2026, expires October 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 16, 1989, 13 years after the 1976 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 76-30830 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9553E 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 N9553E. 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 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 11, 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 11, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data