N2497K

Luscombe 8E · built 1947

Register facts: FAA Aircraft Registry (Releasable Aircraft Database) (open data).

FlightFinder has no observed route profile for this registration. The documented safety events below are available independently of live flight tracking.

Safety history

  • May 5, 1985Accident

    AT ABOUT 1700 CDT ON 5/5/85, THE ACFT WAS OBSERVED TAKING OFF AT CHICKASHA, OK. AT SOMETIME AFTER 1700, AN ACFT MATCHING ITS DESCRIPTION WAS OBSERVED FLYING LOW OVER A LAKE. A WITNESS IN THAT AREA OBSERVED IT PULLED UP IN A STEEP CLIMB OVER THE DAM, UNTIL IT NEARLY STOPPED, THEN IT DOVE VERTICALLY & RECOVERED AT LOW ALT.

    Luscombe 8E

  • May 25, 1982Accident

    WHILE EN ROUTE, THE PILOT ENCOUNTERED HEADWINDS AND ELECTED TO LAND AT GOODLAND, KANSAS TO REFUEL. HE LANDED ON RUNWAY 12 WITH A CROSSWIND FROM 320 DEGREES AT 6 KNOTS. THE PILOT STATED THAT AFTER TOUCHDOWN, HE GOT A CRAMP IN HIS RIGHT LEG AND REMOVED HIS RIGHT FOOT FROM THE RUDDER IN AN ATTEMPT TO WORKOUT THE CRAMP.

    Luscombe 8E