Waco RNF
N11259 is a Waco RNF, 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 Escondido, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 25, 2007 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 1, 2005. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Waco
- Model
- RNF · all RNFs 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 RNF 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
- 3462
- 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 · Warner SS40&50 · 90 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1931
- Cruising speed
- 79 mph
- Transponder code
- A036CA (octal 50033312)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 25, 2007
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- 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 · July 1, 2005
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00311120
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Leedom David A
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1217 Via Ramon
Escondido, CA 92029-7232
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 1
Connections how N11259 links to the rest of the register
- Waco RNF 35 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
- Warner SS40&50 150 aircraft with this engine series · 90 hp
- Escondido, CA 65 aircraft registered in this town
- California 27,642 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Waco RNF 1 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Waco RNF 1 supplemental type certificates
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N11259.json.
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The public federal record on N11259, 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 Leedom David A, an individual, certificate issued June 25, 2007, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 1, 2005, 74 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 3462 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N11259 according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (October 13, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N11259. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 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 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data