Luscombe 8A
N25231 is a Luscombe 8A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Bouse, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 20, 2021 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated August 21, 1955.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Luscombe
- Model
- 8A · all 8As and related versions
- Serial number
- 1136
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C65 SERIES · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 86 mph
- Transponder code
- A261C7 (octal 50460707)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 20, 2021
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- August 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · August 21, 1955
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00362912
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Atkinson James A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 146
Bouse, AZ 85325-0079
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 N25231, 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 Atkinson James A, an individual, certificate issued July 20, 2021, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1136 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N25231 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 N25231: Accident on June 23, 1985 at Orofino, ID: 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 8A · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA85LA144 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
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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