Luscombe 8A
N4581M is a Luscombe 8A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1945. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Daphna INC, a corporation in Middletown, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 29, 2022 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 27, 2012.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Luscombe
- Model
- 8A · all 8As and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. Early models have fabric-covered wings; the 8E and 8F are all-metal. This is how the Luscombe 8 Silvaire family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 1936
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor A-65 SER · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1945
- Cruising speed
- 86 mph
- Transponder code
- A5925B (octal 51311133)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 29, 2022
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 27, 2012
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01009887
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Daphna INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1232 Choptank Rd
Middletown, DE 19709-9038
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 1
Connections how N4581M links to the rest of the register
- Luscombe 8 Silvaire 1,420 registered
- Luscombe 1,472 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental A-65 series 32 aircraft with this engine series · 65 hp
- Daphna INC 10 aircraft in the fleet
- Middletown, DE 348 aircraft registered in this town
- Summit Airport · EVY
- Delaware 10,952 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Luscombe 8 Silvaire 14 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Luscombe 8 Silvaire 57 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental A-65 series 2 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental A-65 series 28 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N4581M, 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 Daphna INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 29, 2022, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 27, 2012, 67 years after the 1945 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 1936 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4581M was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-11 (serial 11-84, cancelled March 19, 1965). 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 N4581M: Accident on October 9, 2021 at Winchester, VA: 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Luscombe 8A · operated under 091
The pilot’s misapplication of brakes during the landing roll which resulted in a nose-over event and substantial damage to the airplane.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data