Bellanca 8GCBC
N87008 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 Durham, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 29, 2026 and expires on July 31, 2033. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated May 7, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 8GCBC · all 8GCBCs and related versions
- Serial number
- 51-74
- 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
- ABF8CF (octal 52774317)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 29, 2026
- Expires
- July 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- July 29, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control · May 7, 1979
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00312291
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Garrity Frank B
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 10277 Snoe Way
Durham, CA 95938-9751
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N87008, 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 Garrity Frank B, an individual, certificate issued July 29, 2026, expires July 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 7, 1979, 5 years after the 1974 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 51-74 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N87008 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Forney 415-C (serial 181, cancelled October 2, 1963). 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]
1 NTSB record under N87008: Accident on July 26, 2005 at Oroville, CA: minor 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
a binding and/or activation of the brakes that lead to an inadvertent nose over. The underlying root cause of the brake binding/activation could not be determined.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX05LA245 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