Luscombe 11A
N1690B is a Luscombe 11A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1949. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Colleyville, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 16, 1989 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated October 26, 1955.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Luscombe
- Model
- 11A · all 11As and related versions
- Serial number
- 11196
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor E185 SERIES · 205 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1949
- Cruising speed
- 111 mph
- Transponder code
- A11577 (octal 50212567)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 16, 1989
- Expires
- March 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · October 26, 1955
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00362240
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Melcher Timothy P
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 102 Charlottesville Ave
Colleyville, TX 76034-6814
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
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 N1690B, 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 Melcher Timothy P, an individual, certificate issued August 16, 1989, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 26, 1955, 6 years after the 1949 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 11196 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1690B 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 N1690B: Accident on May 14, 1996 at Calhan, CO: 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 11A · operated under 091
the pilot's failure to maintain directional control during landing. A factor was a gusting cross-wind.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 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