Bellanca 8KCAB
N5540K 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 co-owned owners in Torrance, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 14, 1997 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated June 5, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 8KCAB · all 8KCABs and related versions
- Serial number
- 394-78
- 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
- A710A9 (octal 51610251)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 14, 1997
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Acrobatic · June 5, 1978
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00523515
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Tymczyszyn William R
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 4017 Mesa St
Torrance, CA 90505-6309 - Co-owners
- Tymczyszyn John S / Tymczyszyn Robert S
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 N5540K, 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 Tymczyszyn William R, a co-owned, certificate issued January 14, 1997, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated June 5, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 394-78 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5540K 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 N5540K: Accident on June 5, 1995 at Mission Viejo, CA: 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 loss of engine power due to the failure of company maintenance personnel to correctly connect the throttle arm and throttle linkage during engine installation.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX95LA202 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