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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 13, 2026Bellanca 8KCAB
N8693V is a Bellanca 8KCAB, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1975. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in North Fort Myers, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 23, 2025 and expires on August 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated May 30, 1975.
Where is it now Last seen Tuesday at 9:20 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 8KCAB · all 8KCABs 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
- 185-75
- 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 IO-320 SERIES · 150 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1975
- Cruising speed
- 101 mph
- Transponder code
- ABF31B (octal 52771433)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 23, 2025
- Expires
- August 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- August 23, 2025
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Normal; AcrobaticFAA certificate purpose code NA (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 30, 1975
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00672311
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Michael A Levenhagen
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 3240 Midship Dr
North Fort Myers, FL 33903-6930 - Co-owners
- Joel F Gannon
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.
Connections how N8693V 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 IO-320 series 1,709 aircraft with this engine series · 150 hp
- North Fort Myers, FL 67 aircraft registered in this town
- Florida 21,709 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
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-320 series 31 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-320 series 43 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Spar, cracked · 2010-02-17
- Report filed on this aircraft: Spar, cracked · 2010-02-17
- Where N8693V is now · Last seen Tuesday at 9:20 am.
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The public federal record on N8693V, 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 Michael A Levenhagen, a co-owned, certificate issued August 23, 2025, expires August 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated May 30, 1975, consistent with the 1975 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 185-75 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8693V 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 N8693V. 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