Luscombe 8A
N71245 is a 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 Olathe, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 5, 2021 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 18, 1969.
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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
- 2672
- 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 0-200 SERIES · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1946
- Cruising speed
- 86 mph
- Transponder code
- A9867D (octal 52303175)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 5, 2021
- Expires
- May 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 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 · August 18, 1969
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00321047
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kussatz Michael
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 18870 W 153Rd Ct Unit 301
Olathe, KS 66062-3237
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.
Connections how N71245 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 O-200 series 8,790 aircraft with this engine series · 100 hp
- Olathe, KS 134 aircraft registered in this town
- Johnson County Executive · OJC
- New Century Aircenter Airport · IXD
- Cedar Air Park Airport · 51K
- Kansas 5,731 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 O-200 series 8 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental O-200 series 1 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N71245, 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 Kussatz Michael, an individual, certificate issued May 5, 2021, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 18, 1969, 23 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 2672 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N71245 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 N71245: Accident on September 24, 1994 at Byers, CO: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Luscombe 8A · operated under 091
FAILURE BY THE PILOT TO MAINTAIN A PROPER DESCENT RATE DURING APPROACH TO LANDING. A FACTOR WAS LACK OF EXPERIENCE IN MAKE, MODEL, AND TYPE OF AIRCRAFT.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data