Luscombe 8A
N71261 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 Opelousas, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 30, 2026 and expires on July 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated September 30, 1955.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Luscombe
- Model
- 8A · all 8As and related versions
- Serial number
- 2688
- 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
- A986BF (octal 52303277)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 30, 2026
- Expires
- July 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- July 30, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · September 30, 1955
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00461047
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Magnuson Lloyd W
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 497 Fort Hamilton Dr
Opelousas, LA 70570-8124
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.
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The public federal record on N71261, 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 Magnuson Lloyd W, an individual, certificate issued July 30, 2026, expires July 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 30, 1955, 9 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 2688 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N71261 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 N71261: Accident on April 28, 2018 at Eunice, LA: 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 8 · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain clearance from a tree while on approach to land.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA18CA244 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