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N16512, a Waco YKS-6
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026
N16512

Waco YKS-6

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesWyoming

N16512 is a Waco YKS-6, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1936. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Southern Aircraft Consultancy INC Trustee, a corporation in Casper, Wyoming. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 11, 2026 and expires on February 28, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated June 13, 1956.

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Aircraft

Maker
Waco
Model
YKS-6 · all YKS-6s and related versions
Built of
steel tube, wood and fabric
A 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 YKS-6 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
4504
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 L4 /R755-7 · 245 hp
Seats
5
Year built
1936
Cruising speed
123 mph
Transponder code
A106D7 (octal 50203327)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
February 11, 2026
Expires
February 28, 2033
Last FAA action
February 11, 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 · June 13, 1956
FAA region
Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00372150

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Southern Aircraft Consultancy INC 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
330 S Center St Ste 300
Casper, WY 82601-2873

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Connections how N16512 links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
Place
Airworthiness

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Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N16512, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Southern Aircraft Consultancy INC Trustee, a corporation, certificate issued February 11, 2026, expires February 28, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 13, 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4504 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N16512 according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N16512. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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