Luscombe 8A
N71643 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 El Cajon, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 29, 2015 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Luscombe
- Model
- 8A · all 8As and related versions
- Serial number
- 3070
- 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
- A99557 (octal 52312527)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 29, 2015
- Expires
- June 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 19, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00021217
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mccain Rod A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1560 Skyline Ln
El Cajon, CA 92019-3445
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 N71643, 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 Mccain Rod A, an individual, certificate issued June 29, 2015, expires June 30, 2028. 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 3070 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N71643 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 N71643: Accident on October 26, 1996 at El Cajon, CA: 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
unfavorable weather condition(s), which caused the aircraft to descend at a rate that exceeded its climb capability.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX97LA025 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