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    Airframe Family: Luscombe Model 8
    Latest Model:8A Silvaire
    Construction Number:5577
    Last Civil Registration:N2850K
    Compressed ID:Luscombe 8A cn 5577 cr N2850K
    Latest Owner or Location:Bakrevski Lupcho, Valparaiso, IN

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    Dates

    Event

    1947

    Constructed as a 8A.

    By 1963

    To Robert Best, Millstadt, IL with new c/r N2850K.

    By 1971

    To Elmer Harleen, Madrid, IA keeping c/r N2850K.

    15 October 1997

    To Knight Phill, Monroe, IA keeping c/r N2850K.

    17 June 2004

    Certificate of airworthiness for N2850K (8A, 5577) issued.

    15 June 2007

    Crashed.
    The accident occurred at the Columbia Airport (H49) Columbia, IL, United States while landing. The damage was substantial. The pilot was making a full stop landing to a grass airstrip (2400 feet by 150 feet, dry turf). After the airplane landed, it ground looped and exited the right side of the runway. The left main gear hit a depression and subsequently collapsed.
    For a complete description of the event read the NTSB Report.

    14 August 2008

    To Bakrevski Lupcho, Valparaiso, IN keeping c/r N2850K.

    27 June 2015

    To Bakrevski Lupcho, Valparaiso, IN keeping c/r N2850K.

    September 2015


    Photographer: G R Dennis Price
    Notes: At Brodhead, Wisconsin

    May 2016


    Photographer: G R Dennis Price
    Notes: At Blakesburg, Iowa

    11 June 2016

    Crashed.
    The accident occurred at the Porter County RGNL Airport (VPZ) Valparaiso, IN, United States while landing. The damage was substantial. The pilot of a tailwheel-equipped airplane reported that during landing the airplane bounced, subsequently the leaf spring on the tail wheel broke midspan...
    For a complete description of the event read the NTSB Report.

    15 December 2018

    To Bakrevski Lupcho, Valparaiso, IN keeping c/r N2850K.

    2 April 2022

    Civil registration, N2850K, cancelled.
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