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    Airframe Family: Luscombe Model 8
    Latest Model:8A Silvaire
    Construction Number:4089
    Last Civil Registration:G-BUAO
    Compressed ID:Luscombe 8A cn 4089 cr G-BUAO
    Latest Owner or Location:O. R. Watts

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    Dates

    Event

    1946

    Constructed as a 8A.
    LUSCOMBE 8A 4089

    To unknown owner with c/r N1362K.

    27 July 1990

    To Stafford Chevrolet Inc, Dryden, NY keeping c/r N1362K.

    16 July 1991

    Civil registration, N1362K, cancelled.

    From 15 January 1992 to 22 July 1992

    To Rodney Charles Steel with new c/r G-BUAO.

    From 22 July 1992 to 14 January 1998

    To George Henry Matthews keeping c/r G-BUAO.

    From 14 January 1998 to 27 July 2000

    To David Gough keeping c/r G-BUAO.

    From 27 July 2000 to 13 June 2002

    To Dean Sweeney keeping c/r G-BUAO.

    From 13 June 2002 to 17 November 2004

    To Steven Leslie Lewis keeping c/r G-BUAO.

    17 November 2004

    To Kenneth Edwin Ballington, Bretby, Burton-On-Trent keeping c/r G-BUAO.

    5 May 2008


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2008 photo - fuselage was at Derby Eggington Airfield

    To Derby Airfield, Egginton, Derbyshire/Derbys, England.
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    18 October 2010

    Civil registration, G-BUAO, cancelled.

    28 April 2015

    To O. R. Watts with new c/r G-BUAO.
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    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
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     Terry Fletcher
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