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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Waco Classic Aircraft YMF-F5C
N551AW is a Waco Classic Aircraft YMF-F5C, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2021. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Red Baron Air LLC, an LLC in Kalispell, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 8, 2023 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 1, 2021.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Waco Classic Aircraft
- Model
- YMF-F5C · all YMF-F5Cs 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 Waco Classic Aircraft YMF-F5C 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-8F158
- 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 R-755A2M · 300 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 2021
- Transponder code
- A70337 (octal 51601467)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 8, 2023
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 3, 2024
- 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 · September 1, 2021
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01313832
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Red Baron Air 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
- C/O NW Regagent
1001 S Main St Ste 600
Kalispell, MT 59901-5635
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N551AW links to the rest of the register
- Waco Classic Aircraft YMF-F5C 53 registered
- Waco Classic Aircraft 53 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 R-755A2M 34 aircraft with this engine series · 300 hp
- Red Baron Air LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Kalispell, MT 1,284 aircraft registered in this town
- Glacier Park International · GPI
- Kalispell City Airport · S27
- Montana 6,049 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Waco Classic Aircraft YMF-F5C 2 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N551AW, 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 Red Baron Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 8, 2023, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated September 1, 2021, consistent with the 2021 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F5C-8F158 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N551AW 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N551AW. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data