Luscombe 8F
N1113B is a Luscombe 8F, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1947. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Sky Monkey Tailwheels LLC, an LLC in Richardson, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 19, 2023 and expires on October 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 21, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Luscombe
- Model
- 8F · all 8Fs and related versions
- Serial number
- 5740
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C90 SERIES · 95 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1947
- Cruising speed
- 86 mph
- Transponder code
- A032AD (octal 50031255)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 19, 2023
- Expires
- October 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 19, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 21, 1956
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00001080
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sky Monkey Tailwheels LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 629 Gray Stone Ln
Richardson, TX 75081-3559
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 N1113B, 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 Sky Monkey Tailwheels LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 19, 2023, expires October 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 21, 1956, 9 years after the 1947 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5740 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1113B 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]
2 NTSB records under N1113B: Accident on April 30, 2023 at Palmer, TX: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on May 26, 1990 at Morgan, 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Luscombe 8F · operated under 091
The installation of an unapproved rudder control cable, which resulted in a fatigue failure and subsequent loss of rudder control during cruise flight. Contributing to the accident was the mechanic’s inadequate inspection of the rudder control system.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN23LA170 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Luscombe 8F · operated under 091
PILOT'S IMPROPER USE OF THE BRAKES DURING LANDING ROLL.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN90LA117 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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