Silvaire LUSCOMBE 8A
N2218K is a Silvaire LUSCOMBE 8A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1947. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Johnson City, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 16, 2022 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated November 23, 1955.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Silvaire
- Model
- LUSCOMBE 8A · all LUSCOMBE 8As and related versions
- Serial number
- 4945
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C65 SERIES · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1947
- Cruising speed
- 86 mph
- Transponder code
- A1E832 (octal 50364062)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 16, 2022
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · November 23, 1955
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00441742
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Estaban Granwel G
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3333 Bondwood Cir
Johnson City, TN 37604-8904
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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 N2218K, 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 Estaban Granwel G, an individual, certificate issued November 16, 2022, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 23, 1955, 8 years after the 1947 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 4945 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N2218K 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 N2218K: Accident on August 28, 2009 at Sandy, OR: 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: Silvaire LUSCOMBE 8A · operated under 091
The pilot's decision to continue the landing rather than execute a go-around. Contributing to the accident was the pilot's failure to maintain proper airspeed and altitude during the approach.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR09CA424 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