Luscombe 8F
N1871B is a Luscombe 8F, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1948. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Hampton, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 5, 1991 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated August 15, 1955.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Luscombe
- Model
- 8F · all 8Fs and related versions
- Serial number
- 6298
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C90 SERIES · 95 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1948
- Cruising speed
- 86 mph
- Transponder code
- A15D2A (octal 50256452)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 5, 1991
- Expires
- August 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 25, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · August 15, 1955
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00352740
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sensor Paul A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 117 19Th Ave NE
Hampton, IA 50441
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 N1871B, 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 Sensor Paul A, an individual, certificate issued February 5, 1991, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 15, 1955, 7 years after the 1948 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 6298 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1871B 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 N1871B: Accident on December 11, 1991 at Chapin, IA: 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 8-F · operated under 091
FAILED CONNECTING ROD WHICH RESULTED IN A CATASTROPHIC ENGINE FAILURE. A FACTOR RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WAS UNSUITABLE TERRAIN.
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
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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