Bellanca 8GCBC
N4159Y is a Bellanca 8GCBC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1977. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Bauer Aviation LLC, an LLC in Reese, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 2, 2016 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 20, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 8GCBC · all 8GCBCs and related versions
- Serial number
- 23877
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 101 mph
- Transponder code
- A4EA5D (octal 51165135)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 2, 2016
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 20, 1997
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00382748
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bauer Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 2457 S Bradford Rd
Reese, MI 48757-9211
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 2
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N4159Y, 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 Bauer Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 2, 2016, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 20, 1997, 20 years after the 1977 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 23877 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4159Y was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Raven S55A (serial S55A878, cancelled July 23, 1994); Cessna 185A (serial 185-0359, cancelled March 12, 1963). 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 N4159Y: Accident on March 13, 2024 at Grind Stone City, MI: 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 maintain directional control during the landing roll on a wet turf runway with a quartering tailwind.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN24LA136 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