Bellanca 8KCAB
N731JD is a Bellanca 8KCAB, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1977. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Mesa, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 4, 2019 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated September 23, 1977.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 8KCAB · all 8KCABs and related versions
- Serial number
- 340-77
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming AEIO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 101 mph
- Transponder code
- A9CF8E (octal 52347616)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 4, 2019
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Acrobatic · September 23, 1977
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00402992
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Reifschneider Harry III
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 10607 E Ensenada St
Mesa, AZ 85207-3242
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 N731JD, 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 Reifschneider Harry III, an individual, certificate issued April 4, 2019, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated September 23, 1977, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 340-77 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N731JD was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna A188B (serial 18802924, cancelled June 23, 2005). 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]
1 NTSB record under N731JD: Accident on July 16, 2011 at Greeley, 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 8KCAB · operated under 091
The pilot's loss of directional control during landing, resulting in a runway excursion.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN11CA485 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