{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2019-05-17","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-02-20","city":"CANON CITY","country_code":"US","county_code":"043","cruise_speed_mph":86,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"17003","engine_horsepower":65,"engine_maker":"CONT MOTOR","engine_model":"A&C65 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2032-02-29","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-02-20","maker":"Luscombe","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"LUSCOMBE","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"8190112","mode_s_code":"50120032","mode_s_hex":"A0A01A","model":"8E","n_number":"N1398K","name":"KRANTZ TIMOTHY","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Meeker","damage":"SUBS","date":"2026-04-19","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"CEN26LA169","probable_cause":"The pilot\u2019s inability to maintain climb performance and clearance from terrain due to the airplane\u2019s encounter with windshear during takeoff.","registration":"N1398K","state":"CO","summary":"Accident on April 19, 2026 at Meeker, CO: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"KRANTZ LEVI","plain_english":"N1398K is a Luscombe 8E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1946. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Canon City, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 20, 2025 and expires on February 29, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 17, 2019.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Krantz Timothy, a co-owned, certificate issued February 20, 2025, expires February 29, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 17, 2019, 73 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.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4125 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N1398K according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N1398K: Accident on April 19, 2026 at Meeker, CO: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"Co-owned","registrant_type_code":"4","seats":2,"serial_number":"4125","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CO","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"3170 GRANDVIEW AVE","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00041600","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N1398K","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1946,"zip":"812129351"}