Bellanca 17-30A
N9554E is a Bellanca 17-30A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1977. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Plains, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 12, 2021 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 8, 1977.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 17-30A · all 17-30As and related versions
- Serial number
- 78-30862
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 142 mph
- Transponder code
- AD4A23 (octal 53245043)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 12, 2021
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 8, 1977
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00324600
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hosteller Samuel R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 7 Burnham Ln
Plains, MT 59859-9526
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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N9554E, 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 Hosteller Samuel R, an individual, certificate issued February 12, 2021, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 8, 1977, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 78-30862 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9554E was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aeronca 11BC (serial 11AC-1191, cancelled November 19, 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N9554E. 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