Silvaire LUSCOMBE 8A
N45906 is a Silvaire LUSCOMBE 8A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1946. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Slater, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 8, 2003 and expires on November 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated September 20, 1957.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Silvaire
- Model
- LUSCOMBE 8A · all LUSCOMBE 8As and related versions
- Serial number
- 2433
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C65 SERIES · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1946
- Cruising speed
- 86 mph
- Transponder code
- A59602 (octal 51313002)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 8, 2003
- Expires
- November 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 23, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · September 20, 1957
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00553054
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Darter Lloyd R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 603 6Th Ave
Slater, IA 50244-9722
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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 N45906, 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 Darter Lloyd R, an individual, certificate issued November 8, 2003, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 20, 1957, 11 years after the 1946 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 2433 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N45906 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 N45906: Accident on May 16, 1984 at Colcord, OK: 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
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW84LA233 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