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    Airframe Family: Luscombe Model 8
    Latest Model:8E Silvaire
    Construction Number:3455
    Last Civil Registration:G-BSYF
    Compressed ID:Luscombe 8E cn 3455 cr G-BSYF
    Latest Owner or Location:Victor Robert Leggott, Over, Cambridge

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    Dates

    Event

    1946

    Constructed as a 8E.

    By 1971

    To David Fox, Ann Arbor, MI with new c/r N72028.

    1978

    To Robert Krebs, Ypsilanti, MI keeping c/r N72028.

    To Richard J Gere keeping c/r N72028.

    Circa 12 April 1990

    Certificate of airworthiness for N72028 (8A, 3455) issued.

    12 April 1990

    Civil registration, N72028, cancelled.

    12 November 1990

    To Michael Whittaker with new c/r G-BSYF.

    11 March 1994

    To Atlantic Aviation keeping c/r G-BSYF.

    Restored.
    An extensive restoration followed, during which the aircraft was modified, fitted with a Continental C85 engine and the fuselage fuel tank replaced by wing tanks.

    7 July 2002

    First post-restoration Flight.
    19 years after its previously recorded flight, and 56 years after its maiden flight in Texas.

    25 May 2009


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Photo at Sywell UK

    26 September 2012

    Civil registration, G-BSYF, cancelled.

    27 September 2013

    To Victor Robert Leggott, Over, Cambridge with new c/r G-BSYF.

    4 September 2021


    Photographer: John Yates
    Notes: At Sywell

    23 July 2022

    Involved in an incident.
    Control lost during an attempted takeoff, Farmers field near East Winch, Kings Lynn.
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