Bellanca 8KCAB
N53870 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 an individual in Austin, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 17, 2023 and expires on August 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 31, 1975.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 8KCAB · all 8KCABs and related versions
- Serial number
- 225-76
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming AEIO-320-E1B · 150 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1975
- Cruising speed
- 101 mph
- Transponder code
- A6D18B (octal 51550613)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 17, 2023
- Expires
- August 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- August 23, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · October 31, 1975
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00802965
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Vier Bradford Edward
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 9201 Bell Mountain Dr
Austin, TX 78730-2706
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 N53870, 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 Vier Bradford Edward, an individual, certificate issued August 17, 2023, expires August 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated October 31, 1975, consistent with the 1975 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 225-76 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N53870 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Fairchild M-62A (serial T41-1330, cancelled December 3, 1948). 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 N53870: Accident on December 1, 1995 at Alexander City, AL: minor 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
The leaking fuel injector, which created a rich mixture, and caused the aircraft engine to lose power.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL96LA016 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