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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 13, 2026Bellanca 8GCBC
N8592V is a Bellanca 8GCBC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 3 seats. It is registered to West Michigan Aviation Academy, a corporation in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 30, 2024 and expires on November 30, 2031. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated June 11, 1976.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 8GCBC · all 8GCBCs and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. This is how the Bellanca 8 Decathlon and Scout family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 149-75
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 101 mph
- Transponder code
- ABCB79 (octal 52745571)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 30, 2024
- Expires
- November 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- November 30, 2024
- Airworthiness
- RestrictedFAA airworthiness class code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Agriculture and pest controlFAA certificate purpose code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 11, 1976
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00692571
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- West Michigan Aviation Academy (flight school: its whole fleet and safety record)
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 5363 44Th St SE
Grand Rapids, MI 49512-4093
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N8592V links to the rest of the register
- Bellanca 8 Decathlon and Scout 554 registered
- Bellanca 2,699 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-360 / VO-360 series 11,929 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- West Michigan Aviation Academy 7 aircraft in the fleet
- Grand Rapids, MI 156 aircraft registered in this town
- Gerald R Ford International · GRR
- Michigan 7,236 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Bellanca 8 Decathlon and Scout 1 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Bellanca 8 Decathlon and Scout 9 supplemental type certificates
- Report filed on this aircraft: Tailwheel, failed · 1995-09-18
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N8592V.json.
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The public federal record on N8592V, 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 West Michigan Aviation Academy, a corporation, certificate issued November 30, 2024, expires November 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 149-75 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8592V 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N8592V. 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 November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 13, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data