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N5500W

Bellanca 8KCAB

Valid Kansas

N5500W is a Bellanca 8KCAB, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Kansas State University, a government body in Salina, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 5, 2019 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated August 29, 1978.

Aircraft

Maker
Bellanca
Model
8KCAB
Serial number
432-78
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming AEIO-360 SER · 180 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1978
Cruising speed
101 mph
Transponder code
A701D8 (octal 51600730)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 5, 2019
Expires
September 30, 2029
Last FAA action
October 23, 2025
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Acrobatic · August 29, 1978
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00533395

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Kansas State University
Type
Government
Address
C/O Polytechnic Campus Aviation
2310 Centennial Rd
Salina, KS 67401-8058

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

1962-09-24Piper PA-28-160 · exported to Switzerland · Valid registration

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data