Classic Aircraft Corp WACO YMF
N31BN is a Classic Aircraft Corp WACO YMF, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1996. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Abbott Aircraft Sales and Service LLC, an LLC in Holts Summit, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 28, 2026 and expires on February 28, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 4, 1996.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Classic Aircraft Corp
- Model
- WACO YMF · all WACO YMFs and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube, wood and fabricA welded steel-tube fuselage and wooden wings, all covered in fabric: the construction of the 1930s and 1940s, which makes wood rot and fabric age the inspection items. A new-production Waco biplane, built the old way: steel-tube fuselage, wooden wings, fabric. This is how the Classic Aircraft Corp WACO YMF family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- F5C-067
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Jacobs R755B SERIES · 275 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1996
- Transponder code
- A3449E (octal 50642236)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 28, 2026
- Expires
- February 28, 2033
- Last FAA action
- February 28, 2026
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · January 4, 1996
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00865661
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Abbott Aircraft Sales and Service LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 12110 County Road 4049
Holts Summit, MO 65043-2814
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N31BN links to the rest of the register
- Classic Aircraft Corp WACO YMF 46 registered
- Classic Aircraft Corp 46 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube, wood and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Jacobs R755B series 210 aircraft with this engine series · 275 hp
- Abbott Aircraft Sales and Service LLC 3 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Holts Summit, MO 16 aircraft registered in this town
- Missouri 5,819 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N31BN.json.
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The public federal record on N31BN, 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 Abbott Aircraft Sales and Service LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 28, 2026, expires February 28, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated January 4, 1996, consistent with the 1996 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F5C-067 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N31BN 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 N31BN: Accident on December 1, 2001 at Banning, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Classic Aircraft Corp. WACO YMF · operated under 091
a loss of engine power due to a crack in the carburetor float and leaking portions of the carburetor that resulted in an overly rich mixture.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 9, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data