Luscombe 8A
N71836 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 Taildragger Adventures Of Madison LLC, an LLC in Madison, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 6, 2017 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated September 24, 1955.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Luscombe
- Model
- 8A · all 8As and related versions
- Serial number
- 3263
- 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
- A99CA5 (octal 52316245)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 6, 2017
- Expires
- June 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · September 24, 1955
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00101277
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Taildragger Adventures Of Madison LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 5646 Lake Mendota Dr
Madison, WI 53705-1058
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 N71836, 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 Taildragger Adventures Of Madison LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 6, 2017, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 24, 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 3263 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N71836 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]
2 NTSB records under N71836: Accident on February 13, 1996 at Puyallup, WA: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on May 21, 1983 at Cle Elum, WA: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Luscombe 8A · operated under 091
the owner's failure to comply with requirements for annual inspections of the airplane, and the debonding of the right brake lining and subsequent jamming of the lining into the right main wheel.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Luscombe 8A · operated under 091
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 September 30, 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