Luscombe 8E
N1273K is a Luscombe 8E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Kent, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 25, 2025 and expires on October 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 24, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Luscombe
- Model
- 8E · all 8Es and related versions
- Serial number
- 4000
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C85 SERIES · 85 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 86 mph
- Transponder code
- A0707E (octal 50070176)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 25, 2025
- Expires
- October 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- October 25, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 24, 1956
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00070660
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Whitlock Paul H
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 29024 200Th Pl SE
Kent, WA 98042-6879
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N1273K, 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 Whitlock Paul H, an individual, certificate issued October 25, 2025, expires October 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4000 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1273K 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 N1273K. 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 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