Bellanca 8KCAB
N53982 is a Bellanca 8KCAB, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1976. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Tipton, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 18, 2015 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated March 4, 1976.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 8KCAB · all 8KCABs and related versions
- Serial number
- 239-76
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-320 SERIES · 150 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 101 mph
- Transponder code
- A6D567 (octal 51552547)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 18, 2015
- Expires
- December 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- July 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Acrobatic · March 4, 1976
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00772985
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Pearson Scott A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1200 Cemetery Rd
Tipton, IA 52772-9357
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.
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The public federal record on N53982, 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 Pearson Scott A, an individual, certificate issued December 18, 2015, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated March 4, 1976, consistent with the 1976 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 239-76 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N53982 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]
1 NTSB record under N53982: Accident on August 29, 1985 at Germantown, OH: 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bellanca 8KCAB · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI85LA366 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