Luscombe 8A
N2980K 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 Waterloo, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 16, 1997 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Luscombe
- Model
- 8A · all 8As and related versions
- Serial number
- 5707
- 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
- A31594 (octal 50612624)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 16, 1997
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00074088
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kubik Rodrick D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1569 Corrine St
Waterloo, IA 50707-2410
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.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N2980K, 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 Kubik Rodrick D, an individual, certificate issued August 16, 1997, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5707 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N2980K 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N2980K. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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