Waco ASO
N11253 is a Waco ASO, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1931. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Frankfort, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 28, 2012 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 18, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Waco
- Model
- ASO · all ASOs and related versions
- Serial number
- 3212
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor W670 SERIES · 250 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1931
- Cruising speed
- 79 mph
- Transponder code
- A036C4 (octal 50033304)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 28, 2012
- Expires
- December 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- July 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · July 18, 1978
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00681100
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Patterson John Miles II
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3 Game Farm Rd
Frankfort, KY 40601-3909
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.
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The public federal record on N11253, 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 Patterson John Miles II, an individual, certificate issued December 28, 2012, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 18, 1978, 47 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 3212 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N11253 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 N11253: Accident on April 9, 2004 at Lexington, KY: 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 ASO · operated under 091
The pilot's inadequate remedial action to wake turbulence. A factor was the pilot's failure to recognize that the takeoff conditions were conducive to wake turbulence.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for IAD04CA015 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data