Bellanca 8KCAB
N238DM is a Bellanca 8KCAB, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1972. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Williamsburg, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 31, 2017 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated May 1, 1972.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 8KCAB · all 8KCABs and related versions
- Serial number
- 19-72
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-320 SERIES · 150 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1972
- Cruising speed
- 101 mph
- Transponder code
- A2268F (octal 50423217)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 31, 2017
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Acrobatic · May 1, 1972
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00152402
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Copeland Gary L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 6818 Baggs Rd NW
Williamsburg, MI 49690-9767
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.
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The public federal record on N238DM, 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 Copeland Gary L, an individual, certificate issued August 31, 2017, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated May 1, 1972, consistent with the 1972 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 19-72 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N238DM 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 N238DM: Accident on April 16, 2000 at Immokalee, FL: serious 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 8KCAB · operated under 091
the pilot misjudged the flare resulting in a hard landing short of the intended landing site, subsequently impacting the ground, and nosing over.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA00LA136 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data