Charles Morris BEARHAWK 4 PLACE
N8198A is a Charles Morris BEARHAWK 4 PLACE, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2015. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Holly, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 21, 2015 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated November 5, 2015.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Charles Morris
- Model
- BEARHAWK 4 PLACE
- Serial number
- 697
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming O-360 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2015
- Transponder code
- AB2E3C (octal 52627074)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 21, 2015
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · November 5, 2015
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01184129
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Morris Charles R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4045 Evans Rd
Holly, MI 48442-9415
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
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The public federal record on N8198A, 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 Morris Charles R, an individual, certificate issued July 21, 2015, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated November 5, 2015, consistent with the 2015 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 697 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8198A was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-161 (serial 28-8216144, cancelled November 25, 2009); Cessna 170B (serial 25050, cancelled March 12, 1953). 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 N8198A: Accident on April 19, 2004 at Holoaloa, HI: serious injuries, destroyed. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA 28-161 · operated under 135
The pilot's continued flight into adverse weather conditions that resulted in an in-flight collision with mountainous terrain. Factors in the accident were rising terrain, low clouds and rain, and the pilot's lack of familiarity with the geographic area.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX04FA190 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