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Waco Classic Aircraft YMF-F5C
N159WA is a Waco Classic Aircraft YMF-F5C, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2021. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Plane Fun INC Tr Trustee, a corporation in Snellville, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 14, 2026 and expires on July 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 13, 2023.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Waco Classic Aircraft
- Model
- YMF-F5C · all YMF-F5Cs 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 new-production Waco biplane, built the old way: steel-tube fuselage, wooden wings, fabric. This is how the Waco Classic Aircraft YMF-F5C 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
- F5C-8-159
- 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 · Jacobs R-755A2M · 300 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 2021
- Transponder code
- A0ED93 (octal 50166623)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 14, 2026
- Expires
- July 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- July 14, 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 · November 13, 2023
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01313825
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Plane Fun INC Tr Trustee
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 2003 Deerfield Run
Snellville, GA 30078-2403
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N159WA links to the rest of the register
- Waco Classic Aircraft YMF-F5C 53 registered
- Waco Classic Aircraft 53 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
- Jacobs R-755A2M 34 aircraft with this engine series · 300 hp
- Plane Fun INC Tr Trustee 296 aircraft in the fleet
- Snellville, GA 328 aircraft registered in this town
- Georgia 8,790 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Waco Classic Aircraft YMF-F5C 2 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N159WA, 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 Plane Fun INC Tr Trustee, a corporation, certificate issued July 14, 2026, expires July 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated November 13, 2023, consistent with the 2021 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F5C-8-159 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N159WA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Fairchild SA226-TC (serial TC-334, cancelled January 11, 2018). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N159WA. 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 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