Luscombe 8E
N2438K is a Luscombe 8E, 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 Forest Lake, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 21, 2009 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated January 14, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Luscombe
- Model
- 8E · all 8Es and related versions
- Serial number
- 5165
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C85 SERIES · 85 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1947
- Cruising speed
- 86 mph
- Transponder code
- A23E9E (octal 50437236)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 21, 2009
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · January 14, 1956
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00302632
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Schwister Steven W
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 18099 Elmcrest Ave N
Forest Lake, MN 55025-9749
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 N2438K, 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 Schwister Steven W, an individual, certificate issued October 21, 2009, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 14, 1956, 9 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 5165 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N2438K 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 N2438K: Accident on July 20, 2006 at Willow, AK: 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 8E · operated under 091
The pilot's misjudged distance/altitude during landing, which resulted in an undershoot and an in-flight collision with trees.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC06LA094 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