Luscombe Airplane Corp. PHANTOM 1
N272Y is a Luscombe Airplane Corp. PHANTOM 1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1941. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Minot, North Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 13, 2007 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated August 16, 1955.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Luscombe Airplane Corp.
- Model
- PHANTOM 1 · all PHANTOM 1s and related versions
- Serial number
- 131
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Warner SS40&50 · 90 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1941
- Cruising speed
- 120 mph
- Transponder code
- A2B010 (octal 50530020)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 13, 2007
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · August 16, 1955
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00890013
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Pietsch Warren
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2216 N Broadway
Minot, ND 58703-1011
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N272Y, 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 Pietsch Warren, an individual, certificate issued September 13, 2007, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 16, 1955, 14 years after the 1941 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 131 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N272Y was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Luscombe Airplane Corp. PHANTOM 1 (serial 1, cancelled June 27, 1935). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N272Y: Accident on October 1, 1995 at Rolla, MO: 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 PHANTOM 1 · operated under 091
mechanical failure of the left brake.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI96LA001 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