Downer BELLANCA 14-19-3A
N88870 is a Downer BELLANCA 14-19-3A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Florence, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 28, 2023 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 4, 1965.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Downer
- Model
- BELLANCA 14-19-3A · all BELLANCA 14-19-3As and related versions
- Serial number
- 4249
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor I0-470 SERIES · 260 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 152 mph
- Transponder code
- AC3EF3 (octal 53037363)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 28, 2023
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- February 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 4, 1965
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00481801
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Thompson Cormac C III
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 307 High Meadows Dr
Florence, CO 81226-9486 - Co-owners
- Schmidt Gail M
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 · 3 clear
The public federal record on N88870, 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 Thompson Cormac C III, a co-owned, certificate issued February 28, 2023, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4249 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N88870 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Douglas C-54 (serial 3125, cancelled March 31, 1949). 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 N88870. 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