Bellanca 8KCAB
N5038E is a Bellanca 8KCAB, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Fulton, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 23, 2023 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated January 26, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 8KCAB · all 8KCABs and related versions
- Serial number
- 481-79
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming AEIO-320 SER · 160 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1979
- Cruising speed
- 101 mph
- Transponder code
- A6488A (octal 51444212)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 23, 2023
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- January 31, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Acrobatic · January 26, 1979
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00191035
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hohman Brent A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 47
Fulton, SD 57340-0047
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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N5038E, 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 Hohman Brent A, an individual, certificate issued January 23, 2023, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated January 26, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 481-79 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5038E was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 180A (serial 50338, cancelled March 25, 1959). 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 N5038E: Accident on May 29, 2023 at Larchwood, IA: 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’s failure to maintain proper airspeed and his exceedance of the airplane’s critical angle of attack during initial climb after takeoff, which resulted in an aerodynamic stall and impact with the ground.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN23LA205 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