Bellanca 8KCAB
N5503J 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 Cleveland, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 21, 2020 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated July 13, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 8KCAB · all 8KCABs and related versions
- Serial number
- 414-78
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming AEIO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 101 mph
- Transponder code
- A70235 (octal 51601065)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 21, 2020
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Acrobatic · July 13, 1978
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00673385
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Falterman Patrick J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 380 County Road 2223
Cleveland, TX 77327-0950
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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N5503J, 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 Falterman Patrick J, an individual, certificate issued July 21, 2020, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated July 13, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 414-78 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5503J was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-32-260 (serial 32974, cancelled December 12, 1974). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N5503J. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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