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N5041U

Bellanca 8KCAB

Valid Montana

N5041U 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 Deer Lodge, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 19, 1987 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated July 16, 1979. 2 documents are on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership), loan or lien (security agreement).

Aircraft

Maker
Bellanca
Model
8KCAB · all 8KCABs and related versions
Serial number
540-79
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
A64B5A (octal 51445532)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 19, 1987
Expires
October 31, 2029
Last FAA action
September 9, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Acrobatic · July 16, 1979
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00021075

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Kelley Ronald C
Type
Individual
Address
2944 Greenhouse Rd
Deer Lodge, MT 59722-8738

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Documents on file 2

2026-09-10Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)
2026-09-10Loan or lien (security agreement)

Records check free · 1 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N5041U, 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 Kelley Ronald C, an individual, certificate issued March 19, 1987, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated July 16, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 540-79 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N5041U according to the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONRecent registry documents

1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (September 10, 2026). The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file. [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N5041U. 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