Luscombe 8A
N71790 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 Covert, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 13, 2018 and expires on November 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated May 27, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Luscombe
- Model
- 8A · all 8As and related versions
- Serial number
- 3217
- 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
- A999BA (octal 52314672)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 13, 2018
- Expires
- November 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 23, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · May 27, 1956
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00871257
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Christy Ronald P
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 80200 Linden Hills St
Covert, MI 49043-8504
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 N71790, 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 Christy Ronald P, an individual, certificate issued November 13, 2018, expires November 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 3217 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N71790 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 N71790: Accident on July 5, 2025 at Newaygo, MI: 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
The pilot’s inadequate fuel planning and his failure to adequately monitor the fuel level during the flight which resulted in a total loss of engine power due to fuel exhaustion.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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