Bellanca 8GCBC
N86863 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 an individual in Jones, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 26, 1985 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated August 6, 1975.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 8GCBC · all 8GCBCs and related versions
- Serial number
- 36-74
- 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
- ABEFD5 (octal 52767725)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 26, 1985
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control · August 6, 1975
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00882331
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Pruitt Leland L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 17319 La Ark Rd
Jones, LA 71250-9347
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 · 4 clear
The public federal record on N86863, 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 Pruitt Leland L, an individual, certificate issued March 26, 1985, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Multiple certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated August 6, 1975, consistent with the 1974 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 36-74 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N86863 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bellanca 14-13 (serial 1225, cancelled March 17, 1948). 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 N86863. 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