Luscombe 8E
N2638K 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 Wooster, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 25, 2020 and expires on March 31, 2030. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Luscombe
- Model
- 8E · all 8Es and related versions
- Serial number
- 5365
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 86 mph
- Transponder code
- A28D9C (octal 50506634)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 25, 2020
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 13, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00563292
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bolin William E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 8826 Angling Rd
Wooster, OH 44691-9343
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 N2638K, 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 Bolin William E, an individual, certificate issued March 25, 2020, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5365 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N2638K 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 N2638K: Accident on May 1, 1999 at Conroe, TX: serious 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 loss of engine power due to fuel starvation as a result of a blocked fuel vent. A factor was the lack of suitable terrain for the forced landing.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 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