Bellanca 17-31A
N9643E is a Bellanca 17-31A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1977. It has 4 seats. It is registered to El Gato Grande Aviation LLC, an LLC in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 10, 2023 and expires on May 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 25, 1977.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 17-31A · all 17-31As and related versions
- Serial number
- 77-32-169
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540 SER · 300 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 169 mph
- Transponder code
- AD6DC8 (octal 53266710)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 10, 2023
- Expires
- May 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- May 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 25, 1977
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00144270
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- El Gato Grande Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 2315 Spruce St
Philadelphia, PA 19103-5518
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 N9643E, 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 El Gato Grande Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 10, 2023, expires May 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated August 25, 1977, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 77-32-169 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9643E was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aeronca 11AC (serial 11AC-1287, cancelled April 11, 1951). 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 N9643E. 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