Bellanca 8KCAB
N5042J 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 Berryton, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 21, 2013 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated March 27, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 8KCAB · all 8KCABs and related versions
- Serial number
- 501-79
- 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
- A64B73 (octal 51445563)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 21, 2013
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Acrobatic · March 27, 1979
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00201085
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lutes David W
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4606 SE Paulen Rd
Berryton, KS 66409-9235
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N5042J, 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 Lutes David W, an individual, certificate issued October 21, 2013, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated March 27, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 501-79 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5042J according to the deregistered file. [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 N5042J: Accident on March 7, 1983 at Roswell, NM: 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 8KCAB · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW83LA141 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data