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N5049C

Bellanca 8KCAB

Valid Tennessee

N5049C 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 Innovative Design And Manufacturing LLC, an LLC in Johnson City, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 9, 2015 and expires on November 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated May 30, 1979.

Aircraft

Maker
Bellanca
Model
8KCAB · all 8KCABs and related versions
Serial number
519-79
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming AEIO-320 SER · 160 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1979
Cruising speed
101 mph
Transponder code
A64C62 (octal 51446142)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
November 9, 2015
Expires
November 30, 2028
Last FAA action
September 10, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Acrobatic · May 30, 1979
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00001095

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Innovative Design And Manufacturing LLC
Type
LLC
Address
2 Ridgewood Ter Apt A
Johnson City, TN 37601-1119

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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

1950-11-13Beech B35 · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N5049C, 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 Innovative Design And Manufacturing LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 9, 2015, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated May 30, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 519-79 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N5049C was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech B35 (serial D-2378, cancelled November 13, 1950). 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 N5049C. 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