Bellanca 8KCAB
N9178L 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 Cape Girardeau, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 22, 1989 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated February 16, 1972.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 8KCAB · all 8KCABs and related versions
- Serial number
- 5-72
- 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
- ACB427 (octal 53132047)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 22, 1989
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Acrobatic · February 16, 1972
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00750911
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Clarke Paul W
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 128 Lake Shire Ct
Cape Girardeau, MO 63701-4954
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 N9178L, 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 Clarke Paul W, an individual, certificate issued July 22, 1989, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated February 16, 1972, consistent with the 1972 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5-72 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9178L 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 N9178L: Accident on June 14, 1984 at Mahaffey, PA: 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
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