Bellanca 7KCAB
N8780 is a Bellanca 7KCAB, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Gbm Aviation LLC, an LLC in Los Altos, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 12, 2018 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated March 14, 1973.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 7KCAB · all 7KCABs and related versions
- Serial number
- 362-73
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-320 SERIES · 150 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- AC1666 (octal 53013146)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 12, 2018
- Expires
- December 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- July 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Acrobatic · March 14, 1973
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00772091
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gbm Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 1962
Los Altos, CA 94023-1962
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 · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N8780, 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 Gbm Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 12, 2018, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 362-73 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8780 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Swallow TP (serial 180, cancelled March 31, 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]
1 NTSB record under N8780: Accident on June 15, 1986 at Taft, CA: no 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 KCAB · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX86LA246 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