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N1440K

Luscombe 8A

Valid Alabama

N1440K 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 Headland, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 2, 2007 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 25, 1946.

Aircraft

Maker
Luscombe
Model
8A · all 8As and related versions
Serial number
4167
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
A0B3EE (octal 50131756)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 2, 2007
Expires
July 31, 2029
Last FAA action
August 18, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · October 25, 1946
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00151720

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Tucker James M JR
Type
Individual
Address
106 Buckhead Dr
Headland, AL 36345-9182

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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 · 5 clear

The public federal record on N1440K, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Tucker James M JR, an individual, certificate issued February 2, 2007, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated October 25, 1946, consistent with the 1946 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4167 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N1440K according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N1440K. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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