Silvaire LUSCOMBE 8A
N28545 is a Silvaire LUSCOMBE 8A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1940. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Angels Camp, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 26, 2015 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated September 2, 1955.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Silvaire
- Model
- LUSCOMBE 8A · all LUSCOMBE 8As and related versions
- Serial number
- 1374
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C65 SERIES · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1940
- Cruising speed
- 86 mph
- Transponder code
- A2E390 (octal 50561620)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 26, 2015
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · September 2, 1955
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00261334
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kittle Stacy S JR
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 452 Buckskin Rd
Angels Camp, CA 95222-9683
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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 N28545, 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 Kittle Stacy S JR, an individual, certificate issued February 26, 2015, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 2, 1955, 15 years after the 1940 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 1374 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N28545 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 N28545: Accident on June 20, 2025 at San Andreas, CA: 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: Silvaire LUSCOMBE 8A · operated under 091
The pilot’s loss of directional control during landing roll following an encounter with a dust devil.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR25LA185 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