Luscombe 8A
N40SD is a Luscombe 8A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1948. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Flying S Airventures LLC, an LLC in San Antonio, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 28, 2026 and expires on January 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated August 10, 1955.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Luscombe
- Model
- 8A · all 8As and related versions
- Serial number
- 6339
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C90 SERIES · 95 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1948
- Cruising speed
- 86 mph
- Transponder code
- A4ABDC (octal 51125734)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 28, 2026
- Expires
- January 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- January 28, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · August 10, 1955
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00102870
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Flying S Airventures LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 239 Abiso Ave
San Antonio, TX 78209-5103
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.
Earlier use of this number 2
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N40SD, 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 Flying S Airventures LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 28, 2026, expires January 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 10, 1955, 7 years after the 1948 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 6339 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N40SD was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 305A (serial 22548, cancelled October 18, 2012); Bell 47G-3B (serial 3495, cancelled February 18, 1997). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N40SD: Accident on July 21, 1993 at Orlando, FL: 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: Bell 47G-3B · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA93T#A01 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
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