Bellanca 7KCAB
N12208 is a Bellanca 7KCAB, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1972. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Thornville, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 10, 1994 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 29, 1972.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 7KCAB · all 7KCABs and related versions
- Serial number
- 300-72
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-320 SERIES · 150 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1972
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- A05D99 (octal 50056631)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 10, 1994
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · February 29, 1972
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00440390
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Shepard John A
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 10852 Zion Rd
Thornville, OH 43076 - Co-owners
- Shepard Tonya E
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N12208, 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 Shepard John A, a co-owned, certificate issued January 10, 1994, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated February 29, 1972, consistent with the 1972 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 300-72 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N12208 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Rolland T Richart RICHART MONOPLANE (serial RM-7, cancelled February 15, 1933). 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]
1 NTSB record under N12208: Accident on March 11, 1989 at Steubenville, OH: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Champion 7KCAB · operated under 091
THE RUDDER CONTROL CABLE FAILED WHICH RENDERED THE CONTROL SURFACE INOPERATIVE. THE LOSS OF RUDDER PRECLUDED THE PILOT FROM MAINTAINING DIRECTIONAL CONTROL AFTER LANDING.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 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