Luscombe 8A
N1171K 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 Valley Center, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 31, 2020 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 8, 2008.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Luscombe
- Model
- 8A · all 8As and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. Early models have fabric-covered wings; the 8E and 8F are all-metal. This is how the Luscombe 8 Silvaire family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 3898
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor A-65-8F · 65 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1946
- Cruising speed
- 86 mph
- Transponder code
- A048B9 (octal 50044271)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 31, 2020
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 8, 2008
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00164182
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wiebe James R
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 20 Hawthorne Dr
Valley Center, KS 67147-8585
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N1171K links to the rest of the register
- Luscombe 8 Silvaire 1,420 registered
- Luscombe 1,472 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental A-65-8F 24 aircraft with this engine series · 65 hp
- Valley Center, KS 51 aircraft registered in this town
- Kansas 5,752 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Luscombe 8 Silvaire 14 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Luscombe 8 Silvaire 57 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental A-65-8F 2 airworthiness directives
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The public federal record on N1171K, 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 Wiebe James R, an individual, certificate issued August 31, 2020, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 8, 2008, 62 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 3898 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1171K 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N1171K. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data