Luscombe 8A
N1164K is a Luscombe 8A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1946. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Canton, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 25, 2026 and expires on May 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 10, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Luscombe
- Model
- 8A · all 8As and related versions
- Serial number
- 3891
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C65 SERIES · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1946
- Cruising speed
- 86 mph
- Transponder code
- A0456B (octal 50042553)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 25, 2026
- Expires
- May 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- May 25, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 10, 1956
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00911200
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Goode Stephen C
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 5437 Fm 3227
Canton, TX 75103-8560
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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 N1164K, 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 Goode Stephen C, an individual, certificate issued May 25, 2026, expires May 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 10, 1956, 10 years after the 1946 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 3891 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1164K 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 N1164K: Accident on July 14, 2026 at Canton, TX: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). 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
On July 14, 2026, sometime between 1252 and 1356 CDT, a Luscombe 8A, N1164K, was substantially damaged when it crashed in a field near Canton, Texas. The pilot, who was the sole occupant, was fatally injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. The flight had originated from the pilot’s private airstrip where the airplane was hangared, which was oriented north to south. A farmer discovered the airplane wreckage about 800 ft northwest of the private airstrip, at about 1356. There were no eyewitnesses to the accident. The pilot sent a …
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- 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
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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