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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 9, 2026Bellanca 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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 8KCAB · all 8KCABs and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. This is how the Bellanca 8 Decathlon and Scout family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 225-76
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming AEIO-320-E1B · 150 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1975
- Cruising speed
- 101 mph
- Transponder code
- A6D18B (octal 51550613)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 17, 2023
- Expires
- August 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- August 23, 2024
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 31, 1975
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00802965
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Vier Bradford Edward
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- 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
Connections how N53870 links to the rest of the register
- Bellanca 8 Decathlon and Scout 554 registered
- Bellanca 2,699 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming AEIO-320-E1B 6 aircraft with this engine series · 150 hp
- Austin, TX 789 aircraft registered in this town
- Austin Executive · EDC
- Austin-Bergstrom International · AUS
- San Marcos Regional · HYI
- Texas 29,976 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Bellanca 8 Decathlon and Scout 1 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Bellanca 8 Decathlon and Scout 9 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming AEIO-320-E1B 26 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming AEIO-320-E1B 12 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Servo Injector, seal failed · 1995-12-21
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N53870.json.
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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.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 9, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data