Waco ARE
N20953 is a Waco ARE, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1939. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Experimental Aircraft Association INC, a corporation in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 13, 2016 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated April 29, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Waco
- Model
- ARE
- Serial number
- 5080
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Jacobs L6 · 330 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1939
- Cruising speed
- 150 mph
- Transponder code
- A1B695 (octal 50333225)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 13, 2016
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · April 29, 1956
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00551282
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Experimental Aircraft Association INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 3086
Oshkosh, WI 54903-3086
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.
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The public federal record on N20953, 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 Experimental Aircraft Association INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 13, 2016, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 29, 1956, 17 years after the 1939 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 5080 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N20953 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 N20953: Accident on June 22, 2003 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 ARE · operated under 091
The inadequate material used in the landing gear cross supports leading to its collapse during the landing roll.
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