Waco YKS-7
N17734 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 an individual in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 15, 2016 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated November 16, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Waco
- Model
- YKS-7 · all YKS-7s and related versions
- Serial number
- 4636
- 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
- A1360C (octal 50233014)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 15, 2016
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · November 16, 1956
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00062450
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Fawcett Walter L JR
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 123 Penn Air Rd
Wolfeboro, NH 03894-4552
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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 N17734, 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 Fawcett Walter L JR, an individual, certificate issued July 15, 2016, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 16, 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 4636 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N17734 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 N17734: Accident on May 13, 2016 at Millersburg, OH: 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 loss of directional control during landing in gusting wind conditions resulting in excessive brake application, and airplane nose over.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA16CA238 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