Waco Classic Aircraft YMF-F5C
N171L is a Waco Classic Aircraft YMF-F5C, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2013. It has 3 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Orange, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 19, 2017 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 22, 2013.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Waco Classic Aircraft
- Model
- YMF-F5C · all YMF-F5Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- F5C-8-134
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Jacobs R-755A2M · 300 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 2013
- Transponder code
- A11DDE (octal 50216736)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 19, 2017
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 22, 2013
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01114727
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Schmidt Louis J
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 1619 E Bolingridge Dr
Orange, CA 92865-1701 - Co-owners
- Schmidt Connie K
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 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N171L, 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 Schmidt Louis J, a co-owned, certificate issued January 19, 2017, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated March 22, 2013, consistent with the 2013 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F5C-8-134 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N171L was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna TU206G (serial 05575, cancelled June 1, 2011); North American NAVION (serial NAV4830, cancelled March 20, 1992). 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]
1 NTSB record under N171L: Accident on January 3, 2015 at San Luis Obispo, CA: 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 Classic Aircraft YMF F5C · operated under 091
The accidental application of the brakes by the passenger during landing roll which resulted in the airplane nosing over.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR15CA074 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