Luscombe 8A
N77869 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 an individual in Mims, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 10, 2025 and expires on November 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated April 20, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Luscombe
- Model
- 8A · all 8As and related versions
- Serial number
- 3596
- 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
- AA8A0B (octal 52505013)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 10, 2025
- Expires
- November 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- November 10, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · April 20, 1956
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00884770
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Briere Mark E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 5335 Dixie Way
Mims, FL 32754-4831
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 N77869, 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 Briere Mark E, an individual, certificate issued November 10, 2025, expires November 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 20, 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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3596 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N77869 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 N77869: Accident on November 25, 2001 at Harrisonville, MO: 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
directional control not maintained be the pilot during landing rollout. The ditch was a contributing factor.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI02LA039 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