Waco YKS-7
N17472 is a Waco YKS-7, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1937. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Newport/Signal Air INC, a corporation in Signal Hill, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 29, 2009 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated April 12, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Waco
- Model
- YKS-7 · all YKS-7s and related versions
- Serial number
- 4612
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Jacobs L4 /R755-7 · 245 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1937
- Cruising speed
- 123 mph
- Transponder code
- A12B71 (octal 50225561)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 29, 2009
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · April 12, 1956
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00862380
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Newport/Signal Air INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 2633 Cherry Ave
Signal Hill, CA 90755-2008
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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 N17472, 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 Newport/Signal Air INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 29, 2009, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 12, 1956, 19 years after the 1937 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 4612 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N17472 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 N17472: Accident on April 26, 2013 at Rialto, 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 YKS-7 · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control and his improper brake usage during the landing roll in a crosswind condition.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR13CA207 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
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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