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N5041M

Bellanca 8KCAB

Valid Kentucky

N5041M 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 co-owned owners in Florence, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 10, 2021 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated March 20, 1979.

Aircraft

Maker
Bellanca
Model
8KCAB · all 8KCABs and related versions
Serial number
497-79
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming AEIO-360 SER · 180 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1979
Cruising speed
101 mph
Transponder code
A64B53 (octal 51445523)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 10, 2021
Expires
June 30, 2028
Last FAA action
May 19, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Acrobatic · March 20, 1979
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00081075

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Vest Dennis
Type
Co-owned
Address
928 Trellises Dr Apt 940
Florence, KY 41042-7134
Co-owners
Vest Barbara

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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 1

1974-04-23Taylorcraft BC12-D · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N5041M, 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 Vest Dennis, a co-owned, certificate issued June 10, 2021, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated March 20, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 497-79 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N5041M was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Taylorcraft BC12-D (serial 10341, cancelled April 23, 1974). 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N5041M. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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