Silvaire LUSCOMBE 8A
N28790 is a Silvaire LUSCOMBE 8A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Odessa, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 11, 2020 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated January 30, 1957.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Silvaire
- Model
- LUSCOMBE 8A · all LUSCOMBE 8As and related versions
- Serial number
- 1551
- 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
- A2EBA8 (octal 50565650)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 11, 2020
- Expires
- June 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · January 30, 1957
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00110543
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lavin Michael
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1646 Beachway Ln
Odessa, FL 33556-5512
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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 N28790, 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 Lavin Michael, an individual, certificate issued June 11, 2020, expires June 30, 2027. 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 1551 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N28790 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 N28790: Accident on March 27, 2025 at New Port Richey, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Silvaire LUSCOMBE 8A · operated under 091
On March 27, 2025, at about 1240 eastern daylight time (EDT), a Luscombe 8A, N28790, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near New Port Richey, Florida. The private pilot sustained minor injuries. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. According to the owner/operator, the airplane had recently been reassembled and had a newly overhauled engine installed about one and a half months prior to the accident flight. Prior to the accident flight, the pilot had flown the airplane on two previous test flights without any mec…
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- 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