Bellanca 8GCBC
N749SK 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 Ocean Aerial Ads INC, a corporation in Berlin, Maryland. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 10, 2003 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 24, 1974.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 8GCBC · all 8GCBCs and related versions
- Serial number
- 127-75
- 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
- AA1593 (octal 52412623)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 10, 2003
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · October 24, 1974
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00261891
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ocean Aerial Ads INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 9758 Carey Rd
Berlin, MD 21811-2116
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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 N749SK, 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 Ocean Aerial Ads INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 10, 2003, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated October 24, 1974, consistent with the 1974 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 127-75 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N749SK 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 N749SK: Accident on July 4, 2024 at Frankford, DE: 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 8GCBC · operated under 091
A partial loss of engine power resulting from cylinder detonation and a cracked spark plug, which resulted in a forced landing and impact with terrain.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA24LA299 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