Bellanca 17-31ATC
N9688E 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 Cool Dude LLC, an LLC in Denton, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 2, 2026 and expires on September 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 5, 1976.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 17-31ATC · all 17-31ATCs and related versions
- Serial number
- 76-31132
- 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
- AD7D53 (octal 53276523)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 2, 2026
- Expires
- September 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 5, 1976
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00704140
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cool Dude LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1016 Stanley St
Denton, TX 76201-2444
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 N9688E, 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 Cool Dude LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 2, 2026, expires September 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated May 5, 1976, consistent with the 1976 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 76-31132 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9688E was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aeronca 11AC (serial 11AC-1334, cancelled August 13, 1956). 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 N9688E. 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