Bellanca 8GCBC
N53954 is a Bellanca 8GCBC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1976. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Pocahontas, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 5, 2014 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 8GCBC · all 8GCBCs and related versions
- Serial number
- 197-76
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 101 mph
- Transponder code
- A6D500 (octal 51552400)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 5, 2014
- Expires
- November 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00082995
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Markey Jim F
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 801 W State St
Pocahontas, IL 62275-3004
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.
Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N53954, 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 Markey Jim F, an individual, certificate issued November 5, 2014, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 197-76 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N53954 according to the deregistered file. [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]
2 NTSB records under N53954: Accident on April 25, 2005 at Pensacola, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on June 12, 1998 at Pensacola, FL: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bellanca 8GCBC · operated under 091
The pilot misjudged his altitude and distance resulting in an overrun. Also causal was the pilot's failure to execute a go-around.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA05CA097 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bellanca 8GCBC · operated under 091
The pilot's inadvertent activation of the parking brakes which resulted in the nose over during the landing roll.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL98LA087 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