Silvaire LUSCOMBE 8A
N72066 is a Silvaire LUSCOMBE 8A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Jacksonville, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 7, 2019 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Silvaire
- Model
- LUSCOMBE 8A · all LUSCOMBE 8As and related versions
- Serial number
- 3493
- 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
- A9A6D5 (octal 52323325)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 7, 2019
- Expires
- February 28, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00269408
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bolton Derwin B
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4783 State Highway 135 N
Jacksonville, TX 75766-6972
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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 N72066, 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 Bolton Derwin B, an individual, certificate issued February 7, 2019, expires February 28, 2029. 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 3493 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N72066 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 N72066: Accident on June 1, 2018 at Longview, TX: serious 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 failure to use carburetor heat for takeoff, which resulted in an interruption of continuous fuel flow to the engine and a loss of engine power during climb. Also causal was the lack of required placarding warning of the need to use full carburetor heat on takeoff and landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN18LA209 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
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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