Luscombe 8A
N2889K is a Luscombe 8A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1947. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Farmersville, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 21, 1994 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Luscombe
- Model
- 8A · all 8As and related versions
- Serial number
- 5616
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C65 SERIES · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1947
- Cruising speed
- 86 mph
- Transponder code
- A2EF50 (octal 50567520)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 21, 1994
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00405560
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Barber Gregory A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 13566 Fm 2756
Farmersville, TX 75442-5093
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 N2889K, 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 Barber Gregory A, an individual, certificate issued June 21, 1994, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5616 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N2889K 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 N2889K: Accident on December 31, 2016 at Mckinney, TX: fatal, destroyed (3 fatal). 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 8 · operated under 091
The other pilot's use of an alternate traffic pattern entry procedure, which resulted in his inability to see and avoid the airplane, which was flying the preferred traffic pattern, and the subsequent midair collision.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN17FA063 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