Bellanca 8GCBC
N5046C 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 Emmetsburg, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 6, 2018 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated July 5, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 8GCBC · all 8GCBCs and related versions
- Serial number
- 309-79
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1979
- Cruising speed
- 101 mph
- Transponder code
- A64BF9 (octal 51445771)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 6, 2018
- Expires
- December 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- July 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control · July 5, 1979
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00001065
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Roberts Scott A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 78 Lake Shore Dr
Emmetsburg, IA 50536-1424
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 N5046C, 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 Roberts Scott A, an individual, certificate issued December 6, 2018, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Multiple certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated July 5, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 309-79 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5046C was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech B35 (serial D-2312, cancelled May 26, 1950). 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 N5046C: Accident on January 5, 1985 at Newburg, ND: 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
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN85LA061 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