{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1955-03-21","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2023-06-24","city":"EDGEWOOD","country_code":"US","county_code":"117","cruise_speed_mph":86,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"17008","engine_horsepower":85,"engine_maker":"CONT MOTOR","engine_model":"C85 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-06-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-06-24","maker":"Luscombe","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"LUSCOMBE","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"8190112","mode_s_code":"50605330","mode_s_hex":"A30AD8","model":"8E","n_number":"N2953K","name":"AKIN MARK P","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"North Platte","damage":"SUBS","date":"2001-01-16","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"CHI01LA065","probable_cause":"The inadvertent ground loop.  Factors associated with the accident were the pilot selected the wrong runway on which to land, the quartering tailwind, the icy runway, and the snow bank which the airplane contacted.","registration":"N2953K","state":"NE","summary":"Accident on January 16, 2001 at North Platte, NE: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N2953K is a Luscombe 8E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1947. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Edgewood, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 24, 2023 and expires on June 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated March 21, 1955.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Akin Mark P, an individual, certificate issued June 24, 2023, expires June 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 21, 1955, 8 years after the 1947 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 5680 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N2953K 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 N2953K: Accident on January 16, 2001 at North Platte, NE: 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":"Central","region_code":"3","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"5680","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"KY","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"3053 BELLFLOWER CT","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00930773","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N2953K","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1947,"zip":"410173301"}