Waco EQC-6
N16214 is a Waco EQC-6, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1936. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Poplar Grove Airmotive INC, a corporation in Poplar Grove, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 9, 2023 and expires on October 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 11, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Waco
- Model
- EQC-6
- Serial number
- 4425
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Wright 760E-2 · 350 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1936
- Cruising speed
- 128 mph
- Transponder code
- A0FBB4 (octal 50175664)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 9, 2023
- Expires
- October 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · July 11, 1956
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00671960
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Poplar Grove Airmotive INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 11619 Il Route 76
Poplar Grove, IL 61065-8827
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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 N16214, 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 Poplar Grove Airmotive INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 9, 2023, expires October 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 11, 1956, 20 years after the 1936 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 4425 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N16214 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 N16214: Accident on April 5, 2006 at Battle Creek, MI: 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 EQC-6 · operated under 091
The maintenance facility failed to properly install and inspect the rudder cable system resulting in the reversed rudder condition which made directional control not possible during the aborted takeoff. A contributing factor was an inadequate preflight inspection by the pilot.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data