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    Airframe Family: Luscombe Model 8
    Latest Model:8F Silvaire
    Construction Number:6179
    Last Civil Registration:EI-DJF
    Compressed ID:Luscombe 8F cn 6179 cr EI-DJF
    Latest Owner or Location:Sean Forde, Galway, Republic of Ireland

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    Dates

    Event

    1948

    Constructed as a 8F.
    LUSCOMBE 8F 6179

    To unknown owner with c/r N1552B.

    By 25 April 1982

    To unknown owner with c/r N1552B.

    25 April 1982

    Crashed.
    There were two minor injuries. The accident occurred at the Philadelphia SPB Airport Essington, PA, United States while on appoach. The airframe was destroyed. The float equipped luscombe stalled during fanal approach to a water landing near a dock. There was considerable rotorcraft activity near the seaplane base due to the presence of the queen elizabeth ii ocean liner.
    For a complete description of the event read the NTSB Report.

    14 November 1991

    To J N. Pew, Gladwyne, PE keeping c/r N1552B.

    1 December 1992

    Civil registration, N1552B, cancelled.

    From 14 March 1996 to 18 January 2011

    To Peter Jim Tanulak with new c/r G-BWOB.

    From 18 January 2011 to 29 November 2013

    To Peter Robert Bush keeping c/r G-BWOB.

    29 November 2013

    To Stephen Richard Hingston Martin, Chesham keeping c/r G-BWOB.

    25 May 2014


    Photographer: Roger Winser
    Notes: At Swansea Airport in Wales

    28 November 2017

    To Sean Forde, Galway, Republic of Ireland keeping c/r G-BWOB.

    21 September 2018

    To Sean Forde, Galway, Republic of Ireland with new c/r EI-DJF.

    June 2023


    Photographer: Sean Forde
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