Luscombe 8F
N1918B is a Luscombe 8F, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1950. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Quincy, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 7, 2021 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 26, 2004.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Luscombe
- Model
- 8F · all 8Fs and related versions
- Serial number
- 6758
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C90 SERIES · 95 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1950
- Cruising speed
- 86 mph
- Transponder code
- A16F54 (octal 50267524)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 7, 2021
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 26, 2004
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00101219
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bauer Ryan K
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 1144
Quincy, CA 95971-1144
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N1918B, 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 Bauer Ryan K, an individual, certificate issued April 7, 2021, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 26, 2004, 54 years after the 1950 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 6758 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1918B was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Luscombe 8F (serial 6345, cancelled April 8, 2004). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N1918B: Accident on October 11, 2003 at Murrieta, CA: minor 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 8F · operated under 091
The pilot's inadequate evaluation of the weather which resulted in VFR flight into IMC, and his failure to maintain terrain clearance. Fog and rising terrain were contributing factors.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX04LA009 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
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