Waco UPF-7
N29962 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 Dana Point, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 29, 1997 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated May 7, 1968.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Waco
- Model
- UPF-7 · all UPF-7s and related versions
- Serial number
- 5459
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor W670 SERIES · 250 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1940
- Cruising speed
- 165 mph
- Transponder code
- A31A2E (octal 50615056)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 29, 1997
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 29, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · May 7, 1968
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00490752
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Whittlesey Leslie F
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 23611 Sidney Bay
Dana Point, CA 92629-4209
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 N29962, 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 Whittlesey Leslie F, an individual, certificate issued April 29, 1997, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 7, 1968, 28 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 5459 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N29962 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 N29962: Accident on May 15, 1983 at Seal Beach, 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 UPF7 · operated under 091
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 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