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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Bellanca 8KCAB
N12KD is a Bellanca 8KCAB, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Dayton, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 29, 2026 and expires on August 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated November 28, 1979.
Where is it now Last seen October 9 at 8:40 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 8KCAB · all 8KCABs and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. This is how the Bellanca 8 Decathlon and Scout 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
- 596-80
- 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 AEIO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1979
- Cruising speed
- 101 mph
- Transponder code
- A0523E (octal 50051076)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 29, 2026
- Expires
- August 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- August 29, 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 · Normal; AcrobaticFAA certificate purpose code NA (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 28, 1979
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00452922
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Deeble Kenneth M
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 274
Dayton, MT 59914-0274 - Co-owners
- Houston Richard S
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.
Connections how N12KD links to the rest of the register
- Bellanca 8 Decathlon and Scout 554 registered
- Bellanca 2,698 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming AEIO-360 series 884 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Dayton, MT 5 aircraft registered in this town
- Montana 6,037 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Bellanca 8 Decathlon and Scout 1 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Bellanca 8 Decathlon and Scout 9 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming AEIO-360 series 23 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming AEIO-360 series 30 reports since 1995
- Where N12KD is now · Last seen October 9 at 8:40 am.
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The public federal record on N12KD, 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 Deeble Kenneth M, a co-owned, certificate issued August 29, 2026, expires August 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated November 28, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 596-80 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N12KD according to the deregistered file. [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 N12KD: Accident on March 30, 1990 at Minneapolis, MN: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bellanca 8KCAB · operated under 091
FAILURE OF THE PILOT TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL OF THE AIRCRAFT DURING THE LANDING. THE FAILED (FLAT) RIGHT MAIN TIRE WAS A RELATED FACTOR.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data