Bellanca 8GCBC
N86985 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 Beebe, Arkansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 4, 2024 and expires on August 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 7, 1974.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 8GCBC · all 8GCBCs and related versions
- Serial number
- 44-74
- 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
- ABF3D4 (octal 52771724)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 4, 2024
- Expires
- August 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- August 4, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 7, 1974
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00652301
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Thomas Lucas G
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1550 Highway 31 N
Beebe, AR 72012-9788
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N86985, 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 Thomas Lucas G, an individual, certificate issued August 4, 2024, expires August 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated June 7, 1974, consistent with the 1974 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 44-74 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N86985 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]
1 NTSB record under N86985: Accident on July 6, 2003 at Manorville, NY: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bellanca 8GCBC · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to obtain the proper airspeed and his delayed remedial action to jettison the banner.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC03LA151 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
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