Bellanca 8GCBC
N57669 is a Bellanca 8GCBC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1974. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Michigan, North Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 16, 2020 and expires on April 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 8, 1974. 2 documents are on file: loan or lien (security agreement), bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 8GCBC · all 8GCBCs and related versions
- Serial number
- 2-74
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1974
- Cruising speed
- 101 mph
- Transponder code
- A767FF (octal 51663777)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 16, 2020
- Expires
- April 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 8, 1974
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00270746
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Orwick Louren Chris
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 11544 32Nd St NE
Michigan, ND 58259-9415
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 2
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The public federal record on N57669, 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 Orwick Louren Chris, an individual, certificate issued April 16, 2020, expires April 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated May 8, 1974, consistent with the 1974 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2-74 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N57669 according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (September 15, 2026). The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file. [3]
1 NTSB record under N57669: Accident on July 8, 1995 at Wellington, CO: 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 8GCBC · operated under 091
FATIGUE FAILURE OF THE LEFT MAIN LANDING GEAR (SPRING STRUT), DUE TO THE IMPROPER MAINTENANCE (GRINDING) BY UNKNOWN MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW95LA279 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data