Bellanca 7KCAB
N8946 is a Bellanca 7KCAB, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1973. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Granbury, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 17, 2014 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated November 16, 1973.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 7KCAB · all 7KCABs and related versions
- Serial number
- 407-74
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-320 SERIES · 150 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1973
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- AC575A (octal 53053532)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 17, 2014
- Expires
- June 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Acrobatic · November 16, 1973
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00661641
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cox Paul Bartlett
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2910 Bob White Dr
Granbury, TX 76049-7024
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.
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The public federal record on N8946, 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 Cox Paul Bartlett, an individual, certificate issued June 17, 2014, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated November 16, 1973, consistent with the 1973 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 407-74 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8946 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]
1 NTSB record under N8946: Accident on April 4, 2024 at Bluff Dale, TX: minor injuries, destroyed. 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 7KCAB · operated under 091
An engine compartment fire for reasons that could not be determined due to extensive thermal damage.
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