Luscombe 8A
N39087 is a Luscombe 8A, 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 Abingdon, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 18, 2025 and expires on June 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated October 30, 1957.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Luscombe
- Model
- 8A · all 8As and related versions
- Serial number
- 1848
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C65 SERIES · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1941
- Cruising speed
- 86 mph
- Transponder code
- A48659 (octal 51103131)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 18, 2025
- Expires
- June 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- June 18, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · October 30, 1957
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00750584
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wolford Phillip J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 32 Knox Road 550 N
Abingdon, IL 61410-9325
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 N39087, 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 Wolford Phillip J, an individual, certificate issued June 18, 2025, expires June 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 30, 1957, 16 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 1848 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N39087 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]
2 NTSB records under N39087: Accident on September 17, 1992 at Columbia, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on June 24, 1985 at San Jose, 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Luscombe 8A · operated under 091
THE FAILURE OF THE STUDENT TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL OF THE AIRCRAFT DURING THE LOW SPEED PORTION OF THE LANDING ROLL. A FACTOR IN THE ACCIDENT WAS THE LACK OF BRAKE PEDALS AT THE INSTRUCTOR'S SEAT POSITION ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE COCKPIT.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX92LA392 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Luscombe 8A · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX85LA290 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