Luscombe 8F
N815B is a Luscombe 8F, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1950. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Williamsville, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 10, 2004 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated July 14, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Luscombe
- Model
- 8F · all 8Fs and related versions
- Serial number
- 6745
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C90 SERIES · 95 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1950
- Cruising speed
- 86 mph
- Transponder code
- AB1C08 (octal 52616010)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 10, 2004
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · July 14, 1956
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00220142
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Strong James R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 27 Cherrywood Ct
Williamsville, NY 14221-1503
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 N815B, 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 Strong James R, an individual, certificate issued November 10, 2004, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 14, 1956, 6 years after the 1950 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 6745 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N815B 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 N815B: Accident on April 13, 2025 at Punta Gorda, FL: 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 8F · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain direction control of the airplane during the landing roll.
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- 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