Luscombe 8A
N1143B is a Luscombe 8A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1947. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Matthews, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 2, 2018 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 16, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Luscombe
- Model
- 8A · all 8As and related versions
- Serial number
- 5770
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C85 SERIES · 85 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1947
- Cruising speed
- 86 mph
- Transponder code
- A03DD2 (octal 50036722)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 2, 2018
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · July 16, 1956
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00501150
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Baker Joseph P
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2441 Alaqua Ct
Matthews, NC 28105-9446
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 N1143B, 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 Baker Joseph P, an individual, certificate issued July 2, 2018, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 16, 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 5770 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1143B 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 N1143B: Accident on June 9, 1995 at Farmington, NM: 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: Luscombe 8A · operated under 091
FAILURE BY THE PILOT TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL.
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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data