Bellanca 8GCBC
N5045E is a Bellanca 8GCBC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Gustavus, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 11, 2018 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 15, 2010.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 8GCBC · all 8GCBCs and related versions
- Serial number
- 308-79
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1979
- Cruising speed
- 101 mph
- Transponder code
- A64BD8 (octal 51445730)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 11, 2018
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · July 15, 2010
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00731055
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Schroth Charles D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 193
Gustavus, AK 99826-0193
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.
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The public federal record on N5045E, 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 Schroth Charles D, an individual, certificate issued January 11, 2018, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 15, 2010, 31 years after the 1979 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 308-79 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5045E 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 N5045E: Accident on April 12, 2017 at Willow, AK: 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 airplane's left main ski's collision with a submerged frozen sand berm.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA17CA228 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