Sky DutyLuscombe 8 Silvaire: US Fleet Statistics
As of the FAA registry snapshot on July 11, 2026, there are 881 Luscombe 8 Silvaire aircraft with a valid US registration — ranking it #56 among all US civil aircraft model families by registration count. Every figure on this page is computed directly from the public FAA aircraft registry.
How many Luscombe 8 Silvaires are registered in the United States?
The FAA aircraft registry lists 881 Luscombe 8 Silvaire aircraft with a valid registration as of July 11, 2026. The Luscombe 8 Silvaire is a single-engine airplane, and this family groups every registered variant of the Luscombe 8A together. It ranks #56 by registration count among the model families tracked in this dataset.
These counts come from the FAA MASTER file and reflect aircraft with an active “valid” registration status. To pull up the current owner, based state, and registration dates for a specific airframe, use the free FAA tail number lookup. To browse every model in this dataset, see the US aircraft fleet statistics index.
Luscombe 8 Silvaire registrations by state
California has the most registered Luscombe 8 Silvaire aircraft, with 80. The table below shows the ten states with the most Luscombe 8 Silvaire registrations by the owner address on file with the FAA.
| Rank | State | Registered | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | California (CA) | 80 | 9.1% |
| 2 | Texas (TX) | 70 | 7.9% |
| 3 | Florida (FL) | 46 | 5.2% |
| 4 | Washington (WA) | 42 | 4.8% |
| 5 | Illinois (IL) | 41 | 4.7% |
| 6 | Ohio (OH) | 38 | 4.3% |
| 7 | Georgia (GA) | 34 | 3.9% |
| 8 | Missouri (MO) | 33 | 3.7% |
| 9 | Minnesota (MN) | 28 | 3.2% |
| 10 | Wisconsin (WI) | 27 | 3.1% |
Share is of all 881 registered Luscombe 8 Silvaire aircraft. Based on FAA registered-owner state; not all aircraft are based where they are registered.
How old are registered Luscombe 8 Silvaires?
The median registered Luscombe 8 Silvaire was manufactured in 1946. Most were built between 1940 and 1947, and manufacture years across the registered fleet span roughly 1939 to 1953. A manufacture year is on file for 716 of the 881 registered aircraft.
Model year is one of the fields Sky Duty tracks on every tail alongside Hobbs and tach times. See how the app handles aircraft and fleet records.
Luscombe 8 Silvaire engine, seats, and aircraft class
The typical registered Luscombe 8 Silvaire is a single-engine airplane with a single piston engine, configured with 2 seats. The values below are the most common across all registered Luscombe 8 Silvaire aircraft in the FAA data; individual airframes vary by variant and configuration.
- Aircraft class
- Fixed Wing Single-Engine
- Engines
- 1 × Piston
- Typical seats
- 2
- Manufacturer
- Luscombe
Powerplant mix: Piston (879), Turboshaft (2).
Data: FAA Releasable Aircraft Database (registry.faa.gov), snapshot 2026-07-11. Counts reflect US civil aircraft with a valid FAA registration (status codes V, M, and T). Variants of the Luscombe 8A are grouped into a single model family. Manufacture-year bounds use the 1st and 99th percentiles to exclude data-entry outliers in the FAA year field. Figures update when the registry is re-imported.
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