Luscombe 8A
N71288 is a Luscombe 8A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Santa Rosa, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 12, 2024 and expires on February 28, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated October 6, 1959.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Luscombe
- Model
- 8A · all 8As and related versions
- Serial number
- 2715
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C65 SERIES · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 86 mph
- Transponder code
- A9870C (octal 52303414)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 12, 2024
- Expires
- February 28, 2031
- Last FAA action
- February 12, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · October 6, 1959
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00571047
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wilcox Ross L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1388 Snowy Egret Dr
Santa Rosa, CA 95409-4374
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 N71288, 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 Wilcox Ross L, an individual, certificate issued February 12, 2024, expires February 28, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2715 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N71288 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 N71288: Accident on December 26, 1987 at Chillicothe, MO: 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-A · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MKC88LA034 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