Bellanca 8KCAB
N86585 is a Bellanca 8KCAB, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1973. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Indianapolis, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 21, 2017 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated December 13, 1973.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 8KCAB · all 8KCABs and related versions
- Serial number
- 134-74
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-320 SERIES · 150 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1973
- Cruising speed
- 101 mph
- Transponder code
- ABE4F8 (octal 52762370)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 21, 2017
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Acrobatic · December 13, 1973
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00572421
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Birchler Judy A
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 7231 Elm Ridge Dr
Indianapolis, IN 46236-8118 - Co-owners
- Birchler Boyd C
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.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N86585, 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 Birchler Judy A, a co-owned, certificate issued August 21, 2017, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated December 13, 1973, consistent with the 1973 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 134-74 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N86585 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 N86585. 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