Waco QCF
N12428 is a Waco QCF, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1940. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Flying Barefoot Ranch LLC, an LLC in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 11, 2014 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 21, 1971.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Waco
- Model
- QCF · all QCFs and related versions
- Serial number
- 3569
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor W670 SERIES · 250 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1940
- Cruising speed
- 79 mph
- Transponder code
- A0654D (octal 50062515)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 11, 2014
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · January 21, 1971
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00520490
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Flying Barefoot Ranch LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 3511 Silverside Rd Ste 105
Wilmington, DE 19810-4902
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.
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N12428, 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 Flying Barefoot Ranch LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 11, 2014, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 21, 1971, 31 years after the 1940 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 3569 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N12428 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]
2 NTSB records under N12428: Accident on June 1, 1996 at Bartlesville, OK: fatal, destroyed (4 fatal). Accident on April 21, 1989 at Hollbrook, AZ: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Waco QCF · operated under 091
The failure of each pilot-in-command to maintain visual lookout. Factors were: the lack of each pilot-in-command obtaining/maintaining communication with the control tower, and inadequate lookout by each pilot-rated passenger, the inadequate procedures/directives by the biplane association management and the airport management, and inadequate supervision by the Federal Aviation Administration.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW96FA234 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Waco QCF · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL OF THE AIRPLANE DUE TO GUSTING WIND CONDITIONS. THE PILOT DID NOT ADEQUATELY CORRECT THE SITUATION BEFORE THE AIRPLANE TRAVELED INTO SOFT TERRAIN.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX89LA166 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