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N29986

Waco UPF-7

N29986 is a Waco UPF-7, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Thomasville, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 30, 2008 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 13, 1981.

Aircraft

Maker
Waco
Model
UPF-7 · all UPF-7s and related versions
Serial number
5483
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
A31A78 (octal 50615170)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 30, 2008
Expires
February 28, 2030
Last FAA action
October 7, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · May 13, 1981
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00660772

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Roberts Marc
Type
Co-owned
Address
5104 Admire Rd
Thomasville, PA 17364-9697
Co-owners
Roberts Kim

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.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N29986, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Roberts Marc, a co-owned, certificate issued April 30, 2008, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5483 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N29986 according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N29986: Accident on January 14, 1997 at Sanibel, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

MIA97LA062Accident on January 14, 1997 at Sanibel, FL: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Waco UPF-7 · operated under 091

A partial loss of engine power (rough running engine) for undetermined reason.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA97LA062 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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