Bellanca 8KCAB
N7816S is a Bellanca 8KCAB, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to J Gutwein Aviation LLC, an LLC in Francesville, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 1, 2017 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated January 20, 1977.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 8KCAB · all 8KCABs and related versions
- Serial number
- 286-77
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 101 mph
- Transponder code
- AA9778 (octal 52513570)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 1, 2017
- Expires
- December 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Acrobatic · January 20, 1977
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00304870
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- J Gutwein Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 6481 S 1600 W
Francesville, IN 47946-8025
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 · 3 clear
The public federal record on N7816S, 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 J Gutwein Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 1, 2017, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 286-77 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N7816S was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell 206A (serial 16, cancelled June 14, 1967). 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 N7816S. 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