Luscombe 8E
N4PW is a Luscombe 8E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1946. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Sanger, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 5, 2020 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 18, 1946.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Luscombe
- Model
- 8E · all 8Es and related versions
- Serial number
- 2135
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C85-12 · 85 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1946
- Cruising speed
- 86 mph
- Transponder code
- A4A949 (octal 51124511)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 5, 2020
- Expires
- June 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · February 18, 1946
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00141448
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Goeken William K Trustee
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 11890 Merlin Dr
Sanger, TX 76266-7927 - Co-owners
- Goeken Laurie A Trustee
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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N4PW, 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 Goeken William K Trustee, a co-owned, certificate issued June 5, 2020, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated February 18, 1946, consistent with the 1946 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2135 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4PW was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Walker PITTS SPEC S-1-C (serial 470H, cancelled March 30, 1994). 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 N4PW: Accident on June 29, 1991 at Royse City, TX: serious 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: Paul M. F. Walker PITTS S-1-C · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S PERFORMANCE OF AN AEROBATIC MANEUVER AT AN ALTITUDE TOO LOW TO ALLOW RECOVERY.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW91DPA02 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