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N71965

Silvaire LUSCOMBE 8A

N71965 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 Sky West Aviation INC Trustee, a corporation in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 14, 2022 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 23, 2013.

Aircraft

Maker
Silvaire
Model
LUSCOMBE 8A · all LUSCOMBE 8As and related versions
Serial number
3392
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C85-12 · 85 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1946
Cruising speed
86 mph
Transponder code
A9A0C4 (octal 52320304)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 14, 2022
Expires
March 31, 2029
Last FAA action
July 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · October 23, 2013
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00064041

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Sky West Aviation INC Trustee
Type
Corporation
Address
2523 Stieglitz Ave SE
Albuquerque, NM 87106-9605

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.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N71965, 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 Sky West Aviation INC Trustee, a corporation, certificate issued March 14, 2022, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 23, 2013, 67 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 3392 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N71965 according to the deregistered file. [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 N71965. 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