{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1979-12-31","airworthiness_ops":"Normal; Acrobatic","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"1999-04-17","city":"AVON","country_code":"US","county_code":"063","cruise_speed_mph":90,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41505","engine_horsepower":115,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"0-235 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-03-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-10-13","maker":"Bellanca","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELLANCA","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1220460","mode_s_code":"51451664","mode_s_hex":"A653B4","model":"7ECA","n_number":"N5068K","name":"MCCLUNG MATTHEW T","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"NAPERVILLE","damage":"SUBS","date":"1995-08-01","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"CHI95LA256","probable_cause":"The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during the takeoff roll.   Contributing factors were the pilot's lack or recent experience in tailwheel equipped aircraft and failure to abort the takeoff early enough to prevent the accident.","registration":"N5068K","state":"IL","summary":"Accident on August 1, 1995 at Naperville, IL: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N5068K is a Bellanca 7ECA, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Avon, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 17, 1999 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated December 31, 1979.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Mcclung Matthew T, an individual, certificate issued April 17, 1999, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated December 31, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1338-80 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N5068K according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N5068K: Accident on August 1, 1995 at Naperville, IL: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"1338-80","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"IN","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"6622 WOODRIDGE DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00181165","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N5068K","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1979,"zip":"461238322"}