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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 5, 2026Bellanca 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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 8GCBC · all 8GCBCs 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
- 23877
- 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 O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 101 mph
- Transponder code
- A4EA5D (octal 51165135)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 2, 2016
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 22, 2023
- 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 20, 1997
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00382748
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bauer Aviation 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
- 2457 S Bradford Rd
Reese, MI 48757-9211
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
Connections how N4159Y 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 O-360 / VO-360 series 11,931 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Bauer Aviation LLC 9 aircraft in the fleet
- Reese, MI 20 aircraft registered in this town
- Bauer Field · 60D
- Michigan 7,226 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
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N4159Y.json.
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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.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 5, 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 5, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data