Waco UPF-7
N20973 is a Waco UPF-7, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Four Stars Four Bars Aeromotive LLC, an LLC in Fairbanks, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 24, 2025 and expires on October 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 13, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Waco
- Model
- UPF-7 · all UPF-7s and related versions
- Serial number
- 5319
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor W670 SERIES · 250 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 165 mph
- Transponder code
- A1B6DB (octal 50333333)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 24, 2025
- Expires
- October 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- October 24, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 13, 1980
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00021282
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Four Stars Four Bars Aeromotive LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 4376 Dartmouth Dr Apt 11
Fairbanks, AK 99709-3053
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 N20973, 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 Four Stars Four Bars Aeromotive LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 24, 2025, expires October 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5319 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N20973 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 N20973: Accident on July 21, 1988 at Greenland, NH: 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
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC88LA190 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