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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 11, 2026Bellanca 8KCAB
N253CA is a Bellanca 8KCAB, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1977. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Jtv Enterprises LLC, an LLC in Painesville, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 26, 2026 and expires on May 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated September 14, 1977.
Where is it now Last seen October 29 at 6:11 pm.
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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
- 339-77
- 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
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 101 mph
- Transponder code
- A262D6 (octal 50461326)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 26, 2026
- Expires
- May 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 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 · September 14, 1977
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00152942
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Jtv Enterprises LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 7621 Kenneth Dr
Painesville, OH 44077
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 N253CA links to the rest of the register
- Bellanca 8 Decathlon and Scout 554 registered
- Bellanca 2,699 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 885 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Jtv Enterprises LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Painesville, OH 25 aircraft registered in this town
- Concord Airpark · 2G1
- Ohio 8,532 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 N253CA is now · Last seen October 29 at 6:11 pm.
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The public federal record on N253CA, 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 Jtv Enterprises LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 26, 2026, expires May 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated September 14, 1977, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 339-77 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N253CA 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N253CA. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 11, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data