Bellanca 8KCAB
N8SF is a Bellanca 8KCAB, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1972. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Palestine, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 20, 2021 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated December 22, 1972.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 8KCAB · all 8KCABs and related versions
- Serial number
- 59-73
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-320 SERIES · 150 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1972
- Cruising speed
- 101 mph
- Transponder code
- AADEC1 (octal 52557301)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 20, 2021
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Acrobatic · December 22, 1972
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00900742
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Scarbrough Christopher R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 617 E Lacy St
Palestine, TX 75801-2965
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 N8SF, 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 Scarbrough Christopher R, an individual, certificate issued January 20, 2021, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated December 22, 1972, consistent with the 1972 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 59-73 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8SF 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 N8SF: Accident on June 20, 2016 at Freemont Island, UT: 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 8KCAB · operated under 091
The flight instructor's failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll, resulting in an impact with an unknown object during aborted landing and consequent ground impact.
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 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