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N717M

Silvaire LUSCOMBE 8A

Valid Minnesota

N717M is a Silvaire 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 Windom, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 29, 1994 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated March 13, 1956.

Aircraft

Maker
Silvaire
Model
LUSCOMBE 8A · all LUSCOMBE 8As and related versions
Serial number
3454
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
A99721 (octal 52313441)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 29, 1994
Expires
May 31, 2028
Last FAA action
May 12, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · March 13, 1956
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00161237

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Underwood Brian
Type
Individual
Address
38335 County Road 4
Windom, MN 56101-3231

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.

Earlier use of this number 1

1931-06-03Moth 60-GMW · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N717M, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Underwood Brian, an individual, certificate issued September 29, 1994, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 13, 1956, 10 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3454 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N717M was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Moth 60-GMW (serial 155, cancelled June 3, 1931). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N717M. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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