Luscombe 8A
N1616K 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 Lake Isabella, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 10, 2023 and expires on December 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 14, 1958.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Luscombe
- Model
- 8A · all 8As and related versions
- Serial number
- 4343
- 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
- A0F899 (octal 50174231)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 10, 2023
- Expires
- December 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- December 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 14, 1958
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00221950
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Seiter Randy R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1005 Par Dr
Lake Isabella, MI 48893-9338
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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 N1616K, 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 Seiter Randy R, an individual, certificate issued December 10, 2023, expires December 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 14, 1958, 12 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 4343 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1616K 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 N1616K: Accident on December 13, 2021 at Ellinwood, KS: 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
The pilot's improper brake application during the landing roll, which resulted in a nose-over.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN22LA079 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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