Bellanca 8GCBC
N88290 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 Outer Banks Seaplanes LLC, an LLC in Manteo, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 22, 2026 and expires on January 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 6, 1974.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 8GCBC · all 8GCBCs and related versions
- Serial number
- 95-74
- 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
- AC28EF (octal 53024357)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 22, 2026
- Expires
- January 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 6, 1974
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00511941
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Outer Banks Seaplanes LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1076 Driftwood Dr
Manteo, NC 27954-9349
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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N88290, 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 Outer Banks Seaplanes LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 22, 2026, expires January 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated September 6, 1974, consistent with the 1974 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 95-74 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N88290 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper J3C-65 (serial 15908, cancelled February 24, 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N88290. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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