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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Waco QCF
N11241 is a Waco QCF, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1931. It has 3 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Sonoma, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 10, 2026 and expires on March 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 27, 1955.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Waco
- Model
- QCF · all QCFs and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube, wood and fabricA welded steel-tube fuselage and wooden wings, all covered in fabric: the construction of the 1930s and 1940s, which makes wood rot and fabric age the inspection items. A biplane of the 1920s and 1930s: steel-tube fuselage, wooden wings, fabric covering. This is how the Waco QCF family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 3453
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor R670-SERIES · 225 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1931
- Cruising speed
- 79 mph
- Transponder code
- A0369F (octal 50033237)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 10, 2026
- Expires
- March 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2026
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 27, 1955
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00591100
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bowe Walter C Trustee
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 19500 7Th St e
Sonoma, CA 95476-7201 - Co-owners
- Mendieta Carlene A Trustee
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N11241 links to the rest of the register
- Waco QCF 19 registered
- Waco 657 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube, wood and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental R670-series 170 aircraft with this engine series · 225 hp
- Sonoma, CA 157 aircraft registered in this town
- Sonoma Skypark Airport · 0Q9
- California 27,610 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Continental R670-series 1 airworthiness directives
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N11241.json.
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The public federal record on N11241, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Bowe Walter C Trustee, a co-owned, certificate issued March 10, 2026, expires March 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 27, 1955, 24 years after the 1931 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3453 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N11241 according to the deregistered file. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
1 NTSB record under N11241: Accident on September 14, 2009 at Bend, OR: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Waco QCF-2 · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during landing. Contributing to the accident was the pilot's lack of experience in the make and model airplane.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data