Bellanca 8KCAB
N5500C is a Bellanca 8KCAB, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Greenville, Mississippi. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 10, 2004 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated June 7, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 8KCAB · all 8KCABs and related versions
- Serial number
- 401-78
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-320 SERIES · 150 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 101 mph
- Transponder code
- A701C6 (octal 51600706)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 10, 2004
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 13, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Acrobatic · June 7, 1978
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00593395
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Duncan Robert L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1180 Cileste St
Greenville, MS 38703-6539
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 N5500C, 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 Duncan Robert L, an individual, certificate issued February 10, 2004, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated June 7, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 401-78 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5500C was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 170A (serial 19534, cancelled May 21, 1956). 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]
2 NTSB records under N5500C: Accident on May 21, 1999 at Lufkin, TX: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on August 12, 1983 at Kennesaw, GA: 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 8KCAB · operated under 091
The loss of control due to the separation of the left main landing gear as a result of the fatigue failure of the U-bolt which attaches the landing gear to the airframe.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW99LA145 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bellanca 8-KCAB-150 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL83LA323 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