Bellanca 8GCBC
N88189 is a Bellanca 8GCBC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Ocean Aerial Ads INC, a corporation in Ocean City, Maryland. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 10, 1989 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for aerial advertising, dated August 4, 1989.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 8GCBC · all 8GCBCs and related versions
- Serial number
- 89-74
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 101 mph
- Transponder code
- AC251E (octal 53022436)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 10, 1989
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Aerial advertising · August 4, 1989
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00211951
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ocean Aerial Ads INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 813
Ocean City, MD 21842
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 N88189, 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 Ocean Aerial Ads INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 10, 1989, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for aerial advertising; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 89-74 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N88189 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper J3C-65 (serial 15805, cancelled February 13, 1950). 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 N88189: Accident on July 12, 1993 at Berlin, MD: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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
FAILURE OF THE PILOT TO MAINTAIN AIRSPEED DURING PULLUP FROM AN ATTEMPTED BANNER PICKUP, WHICH RESULTED IN A STALL.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for BFO93FA119 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