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N53818

Bellanca 8KCAB

Valid Illinois

N53818 is a Bellanca 8KCAB, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1975. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Prestige Worldwide Aviation LLC, an LLC in Downers Grove, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 8, 2023 and expires on November 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated September 25, 1975.

Aircraft

Maker
Bellanca
Model
8KCAB · all 8KCABs and related versions
Serial number
216-75
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-320 SERIES · 150 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1975
Cruising speed
101 mph
Transponder code
A6D0C1 (octal 51550301)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
November 8, 2023
Expires
November 30, 2030
Last FAA action
November 8, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Acrobatic · September 25, 1975
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00392965

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Prestige Worldwide Aviation LLC
Type
LLC
Address
8428 Brookridge Rd
Downers Grove, IL 60516-4823

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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

1949-03-02Fairchild M-62A · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N53818, 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 Prestige Worldwide Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 8, 2023, expires November 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated September 25, 1975, consistent with the 1975 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 216-75 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N53818 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Fairchild M-62A (serial T43-7332, cancelled March 2, 1949). 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 N53818. 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