Bellanca 8GCBC
N188RS is a Bellanca 8GCBC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Little Rock, Arkansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 11, 2025 and expires on August 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 21, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 8GCBC · all 8GCBCs and related versions
- Serial number
- 341-80
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1979
- Cruising speed
- 101 mph
- Transponder code
- A15FEC (octal 50257754)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 11, 2025
- Expires
- August 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- August 11, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 21, 1979
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00161165
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Vardaman Charles
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 12225 Case Rd
Little Rock, AR 72206-9363
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 N188RS, 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 Vardaman Charles, an individual, certificate issued August 11, 2025, expires August 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 21, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 341-80 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N188RS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 188A (serial 18800708, cancelled March 18, 1993). 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 N188RS: Accident on July 31, 2024 at Cleveland, MS: 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: Bellanca 8GCBC · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to attain/maintain directional control and the flight instructor’s delayed remedial action during landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN24LA306 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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