Luscombe 8F
N840B 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 Saint Louis, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 29, 2022 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 11, 1967.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Luscombe
- Model
- 8F · all 8Fs and related versions
- Serial number
- 6772
- 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
- AB7FF2 (octal 52677762)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 29, 2022
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · July 11, 1967
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00863151
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wilkey Ryan J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2026 Sidney St
Saint Louis, MO 63104-2829
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N840B, 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 Wilkey Ryan J, an individual, certificate issued January 29, 2022, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 11, 1967, 17 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 6772 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N840B 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 N840B: Accident on July 17, 2002 at Farmington, MO: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on September 18, 1993 at Festus, 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Luscombe 8F · operated under 091
The locked brake and the aircraft control not being possible due to the locked brake.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI02LA204 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Luscombe 8F · operated under 091
a fatigue failure of the tailwheel spring.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI93LA369 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
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