N2529K, a 1947 Luscombe 8E serial number 5256, has been in the same hands for 24 years and is offered ready for its next caretaker. The airframe has logged 4,850 total hours as of March 2025, and the engine—a Don’s Dream Machines C85/O-200 hybrid STC producing approximately 100 horsepower—has just 550 hours since major overhaul as of March 2026. It last passed its annual inspection in July 2025. The aircraft is based in Anchorage, Alaska, and the owner, a current CFI with extensive 8E time, is available to provide a demo flight or an insurance-required make-and-model checkout for any buyer eligible to serve as PIC.

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Avionics

ADSB

Garmin GDL 82 - ADSB-OUT system installed 2020 by Peninsula Aerotech, Kenai, Alaska; this included installation of like-new transponder from the company's serviceable spares inventory. Also included is an anonymizer switch.

Comms

King KX 155 - Nav-Com; with no blank or gas-discharge display segments, which if not replaced can lead to a catastrophic voltage spike expensive (replacement) failure of the radio due to the high voltage such displays require. It has performed reliably since its com display was replaced 2014, and with helpful side-tone the headset phones while While it was at the avionics shop— and as stood at the bench and to the technician explain the gas discharge display's characteristics and cautions—the VOR receiver was tested and passed; however, it has never been able to effectively receive a VOR signal, apparently due to the antenna and cable. did replace the antenna and cable an annual inspection a couple years ago, but we didn't get around to out exactly how to connect the cable correctly to the radio; that is, didn't pursue it beyond that, as I've always had some form of portable GPS—an iPad with ForeFlight for the past decade- plus for reliable service. The OBS head includes a glide slope indicator, though it was determined that the receiver lacks LOC/GS capability.

Additional Equipment

Engine Monitoring System

Electronics International E-4 - EGT indicator (and probe system) equipped, installed during engine overhaul.

ELT

ACK E-04 - ACK 406MHZ ELT with a panel-mounted remote control installed; battery replaced 6/2024, due in 2028 or 29.; replacement antenna installed during the 2023 annual inspection.

Seats

Luscombe Foundation Comfort Seats - memory-cushion seat-bottoms replaced the original-design leg-cramp-and-lower-back-pain-inducing (now in storage, included if you want them… please take them); the matching lightweight aluminum seat-back frame assembly was special-ordered to have the right seat-back cushion removable (left behind in baggage area) easy access to items behind it in solo flight larger/longer items in the passenger position.

Landing Gear

Scott 3200 - Grove wheels hydraulic disc brakes on 8.5x6.0 tundra-style tires; ski tubular braces; tailwheel with correct steering springs and chains mounted to a correct leaf-spring per Luscombe foundation specifications for the tailwheel; shock-absorbing oleo cylinder-spring assembly overhauled with new internal seals January 2005.

Brakes

Grove wheel brakes; used Scott/Cleveland hydraulic parking brake valve which was cleaned and overhauled with new, correct seals, mounted to the interior-side firewall in-line between the master cylinders’ T-fitting and reservoir, then installed and routed a new parking brake valve control cable.

Tires

Aero Classic Smooth Tundra - 8.50-6 4-ply low-pressure tires (new in 2020, including new inner-tubes; with protective tire covers since 2024).

Electrical System

B&C 320 - 14V electrical system powered by a 60A alternator; B&C lightweight starter was factory-overhauled at time of engine overhaul; sealed lead-acid battery installed mid-2019.

Ignition System

SureFly SIM4P - Left Magneto replaced with impulse-coupled electronic ignition in 2022; right-position magneto (also impulse-coupled) was overhauled after the installation; new ignition harness installed at time of overhaul in matched new set of 8 spark plugs installed 5/2021.

Carburetor

Factory-new Marvel-Schebler carburetor (serviced in June 2024 by Alaskan Aircraft Engines during the annual inspection) replaced the original Stromberg in 2014.

Intake System

Challenger Aviation High-Flow Filter - Air filtration upgraded in 2022 to (K&N brand) cleanable assembly.

Exhaust System

All stainless-steel FAA-PMA Hanlon-Wilson reproduction headers and heat-exchanger shrouded mufflers obtained newly manufactured from the Luscombe Foundation's parts manufacturing division, installed shortly before overhaul.

Fuel System

Standard welded aluminum 12.5 gallon (25 total) wing tanks; they have been problem-free, no leaks. Equipped with the modern, Luscombe Foundation 1/4-turn fuel shutoff valves on each footwell sidewall. Steve's Aircraft machined-aluminum STC'd gascolator.

Flight Controls

Luscombe Foundation 'Featherlight' sealed ball-bearing (maintenance-free) STC'd pulley kit installed in 2012; ailerons re-rigged per specification; pitch-trim cable replaced in 2019; rudder cables replaced 2012.

Lighting

TRW Alphabeam - Recess-mounted outboard each wing landing light; both were replaced with reliable, blazing TRW LED units in 2015, producing 170,000 candlepower each. The lamps are controlled by control unit (2014) for alternating or synchronized pulsation. 1990s-era white red fuselage-top-mounted just behind the wing. Navigation lights are direct-replacement and bright Whelen LED bulbs (2025) for red green; the original white incandescent nav-light remains in the tail.

Stall Modifications

MicroAir VG - STC vortex generator kit was installed in 2012.

Interior Equipment

BAS 3-point inertia-reel shoulder harness and lap-belts equipped; panel-mount intercom; panel-mounted FAA-PMA cigar-lighter-type fused 14V receptacle for powering/charging electronic devices; ergonomic hardwood stick-grips with PTT switch; right stick and pedals are removable.

Covers

Bruce's Custom Covers full canopy cover in good condition (new ~2020) is included; a set of wing covers in serviceable/fair/repairable condition are included if desired; a well-fitted, like-new insulated engine cover by Mac's Airplane Covers is included.

Interior & Exterior

Interior Notes: Luscombe Foundation Comfort Seats memory-cushion seat-bottoms replaced original seats; ergonomic hardwood stick-grips with PTT switch.

Exterior Notes: Urethane paint in overall good-fair condition; painted c.1995 in Canada. There are several small bare patches where filiform corrosion under the 30-year-old paint has been removed, then chemically treated with Alodyne. There remain such areas of corrosion in the aileron gaps and under the gap seal strips where access can't be gained without removing the ailerons.