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.
Where is it now Last seen October 16 at 2:35 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 17-31ATC · all 17-31ATCs 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
- 76-31132
- 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 · Lycoming TI0-540 SER · 310 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 169 mph
- Transponder code
- AD7D53 (octal 53276523)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 2, 2026
- Expires
- September 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 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 · May 5, 1976
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00704140
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cool Dude LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- 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
Connections how N9688E links to the rest of the register
- Bellanca 17 Viking 628 registered
- Bellanca 2,698 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
- Lycoming TIO-540 series 5,073 aircraft with this engine series · 310 hp
- Cool Dude LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Denton, TX 497 aircraft registered in this town
- Denton Enterprise Airport · DTO
- Joy Airport · 17TA
- Texas 29,945 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 Lycoming TIO-540 series 41 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming TIO-540 series 363 reports since 1995
- Where N9688E is now · Last seen October 16 at 2:35 pm.
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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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data