Waco UPF-7
N20971 is a Waco UPF-7, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1940. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Port Orange, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 31, 2008 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 16, 1957.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Waco
- Model
- UPF-7 · all UPF-7s and related versions
- Serial number
- 5317
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor W670-6N · 220 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1940
- Cruising speed
- 165 mph
- Transponder code
- A1B6D9 (octal 50333331)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 31, 2008
- Expires
- November 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 16, 1957
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00701292
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Baldwin David M JR
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1772 Mitchell Ct
Port Orange, FL 32128-6760
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 N20971, 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 Baldwin David M JR, an individual, certificate issued July 31, 2008, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 16, 1957, 17 years after the 1940 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 5317 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N20971 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 N20971: Accident on April 22, 1995 at Chino, 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 UPF-7 · operated under 091
failure of the attachment link for the master cylinder return spring, which allowed the left brake to lock.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX95LA166 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