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N2189B

Luscombe 8E

Valid Texas

N2189B is a Luscombe 8E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Jacksonville, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 31, 2022 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated April 2, 1957.

Aircraft

Maker
Luscombe
Model
8E · all 8Es and related versions
Serial number
6616
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C85 SERIES · 85 hp
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
86 mph
Transponder code
A1DACF (octal 50355317)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 31, 2022
Expires
May 31, 2029
Last FAA action
August 4, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · April 2, 1957
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00341632

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Bolton Derwin B
Type
Individual
Address
4783 State Highway 135 N
Jacksonville, TX 75766-6972

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.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N2189B, 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 Bolton Derwin B, an individual, certificate issued May 31, 2022, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6616 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N2189B 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N2189B: Accident on May 24, 1996 at Macedon, NY: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

NYC96LA115Accident on May 24, 1996 at Macedon, NY: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Luscombe 8E · operated under 091

a blocked gascolator, inadequate maintenance, and the pilot's decision to fly with a known fuel flow deficiency, which resulted in a loss of engine power, forced landing, and subsequent nose over.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC96LA115 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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 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