Bellanca 8GCBC
N88266 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 co-owned owners in Kasilof, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 11, 1992 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 10, 1974.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 8GCBC · all 8GCBCs and related versions
- Serial number
- 100-74
- 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
- AC288C (octal 53024214)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 11, 1992
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 10, 1974
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00401931
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kraxberger Rick R
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- PO Box 344
Kasilof, AK 99610-0344 - Co-owners
- Kraxberger Scott L
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
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The public federal record on N88266, 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 Kraxberger Rick R, a co-owned, certificate issued February 11, 1992, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated September 10, 1974, consistent with the 1974 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 100-74 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N88266 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper J3C-65 (serial 15883, cancelled September 20, 1956). 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 N88266: Accident on April 28, 2013 at Seward, AK: 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 8GCBC · operated under 091
The pilot’s decision to land on an unsuitable landing surface, which resulted in a nose over.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 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