{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1969-08-18","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2021-05-05","city":"OLATHE","country_code":"US","county_code":"091","cruise_speed_mph":86,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"17020","engine_horsepower":100,"engine_maker":"CONT MOTOR","engine_model":"0-200 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-05-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-05-12","maker":"Luscombe","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"LUSCOMBE","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"8190104","mode_s_code":"52303175","mode_s_hex":"A9867D","model":"8A","n_number":"N71245","name":"KUSSATZ MICHAEL","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"BYERS","damage":"SUBS","date":"1994-09-24","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"FTW94LA313","probable_cause":"FAILURE BY THE PILOT TO MAINTAIN A PROPER DESCENT RATE DURING APPROACH TO LANDING. A FACTOR WAS LACK OF EXPERIENCE IN MAKE, MODEL, AND TYPE OF AIRCRAFT.","registration":"N71245","state":"CO","summary":"Accident on September 24, 1994 at Byers, CO: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N71245 is a Luscombe 8A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1946. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Olathe, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 5, 2021 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 18, 1969.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Kussatz Michael, an individual, certificate issued May 5, 2021, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 18, 1969, 23 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 2672 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N71245 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 N71245: Accident on September 24, 1994 at Byers, 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":"Central","region_code":"3","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"2672","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"KS","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"18870 W 153RD CT UNIT 301","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00321047","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N71245","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1946,"zip":"660623237"}