Bellanca 8GCBC
N88297 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 Fairbanks, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 29, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for other, dated August 27, 2008.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 8GCBC · all 8GCBCs and related versions
- Serial number
- 104-74
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360-C2E · 180 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1974
- Cruising speed
- 101 mph
- Transponder code
- AC28F6 (octal 53024366)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 29, 2025
- Expires
- July 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- July 29, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Other · August 27, 2008
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00761941
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Naber David Lowell
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1382 Little Fox Trl
Fairbanks, AK 99712-1822
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N88297, 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 Naber David Lowell, an individual, certificate issued July 29, 2025, expires July 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 27, 2008, 34 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 104-74 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N88297 according to the deregistered file. [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]
2 NTSB records under N88297: Accident on March 9, 1995 at Fairbanks, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on August 19, 1989 at Galbraith Lake, 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Champion 8GCBC · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S INADEQUATE PRE-FLIGHT PLANNING. A SHORT TAKEOFF AREA THAT WAS COVERED WITH SOFT SNOW WERE FACTORS IN THE ACCIDENT.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC95LA033 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bellanca 8GCBC · operated under 091
THE PILOTS FAILURE TO MAINTAIN DIRECTION CONTROL AFTER ABORTING TAKEOFF FOLLOWING FAILURE OF THE TAIL LANDING GEAR TIRE.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC89LA145 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