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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 3, 2026Waco UKC
N13897 is a Waco UKC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1934. It has 5 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Jackson, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 12, 2021 and expires on November 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 16, 1963.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Waco
- Model
- UKC · all UKCs 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 UKC 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
- 3842
- 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 W670 SERIES · 250 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1934
- Cruising speed
- 123 mph
- Transponder code
- A09C9C (octal 50116234)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 12, 2021
- Expires
- November 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 23, 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 16, 1963
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00781550
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Van Wagnen Brian
- 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
- 4253 Saunt Rd
Jackson, MI 49201-7225 - Co-owners
- Van Wagnen Karen
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 N13897 links to the rest of the register
- Waco UKC 5 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 W670 series 987 aircraft with this engine series · 250 hp
- Jackson, MI 106 aircraft registered in this town
- Jackson County/Reynolds Field · JXN
- Michigan 7,225 aircraft registered
- Approved modifications for the Waco UKC 2 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental W670 series 1 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental W670 series 8 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N13897.json.
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The public federal record on N13897, 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 Van Wagnen Brian, a co-owned, certificate issued November 12, 2021, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 16, 1963, 29 years after the 1934 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 3842 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N13897 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N13897. 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 November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 3, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data