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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Silvaire LUSCOMBE 8A
N989M is a Silvaire LUSCOMBE 8A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1948. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Katy, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 13, 2023 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 16, 1979.
Where is it now Last seen October 14 at 11:45 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Silvaire
- Model
- LUSCOMBE 8A · all LUSCOMBE 8As and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. Early models have fabric-covered wings; later ones are all-metal. This is how the Silvaire LUSCOMBE 8 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 6530
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C65 SERIES · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1948
- Cruising speed
- 86 mph
- Transponder code
- ADCDA6 (octal 53346646)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 13, 2023
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- May 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 16, 1979
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00210237
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Camp John S
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 2431 Village Lakes Dr
Katy, TX 77493-1892
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N989M links to the rest of the register
- Silvaire LUSCOMBE 8 184 registered
- Silvaire 200 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental A65 / C65 series 7,967 aircraft with this engine series · 65 hp
- Katy, TX 104 aircraft registered in this town
- Texas 29,911 aircraft registered
- Where N989M is now · Last seen October 14 at 11:45 am.
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The public federal record on N989M, 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 Camp John S, an individual, certificate issued April 13, 2023, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 16, 1979, 31 years after the 1948 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 6530 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N989M was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Durbin Luke RR-1 (serial G677, cancelled April 14, 1933). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N989M. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data