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N36139

Bellanca 8KCAB

N36139 is a Bellanca 8KCAB, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1973. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Flying Sportsmen INC, a corporation in Sussex, New Jersey. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 28, 2025 and expires on February 29, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated July 31, 1973.

Aircraft

Maker
Bellanca
Model
8KCAB · all 8KCABs and related versions
Serial number
105-73
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-320 SERIES · 150 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1973
Cruising speed
101 mph
Transponder code
A412E6 (octal 51011346)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 28, 2025
Expires
February 29, 2032
Last FAA action
February 28, 2025
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Acrobatic · July 31, 1973
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00083103

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Flying Sportsmen INC
Type
Corporation
Address
9 Baldwin Dr
Sussex, NJ 07461-1701

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

1952-04-22Taylorcraft BC12-65 · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N36139, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Flying Sportsmen INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 28, 2025, expires February 29, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated July 31, 1973, consistent with the 1973 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 105-73 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N36139 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Taylorcraft BC12-65 (serial 3106, cancelled April 22, 1952). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N36139: Accident on February 26, 1987 at Montgomery, NY: no injuries, minor damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

NYC87FA098Accident on February 26, 1987 at Montgomery, NY: no injuries, minor damage.serial on NTSB record: 402C0297

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 402 · operated under 091

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC87FA098 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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