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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 28, 2026Waco ASO
N5785 is a Waco ASO, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1928. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Fresno, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 24, 2020 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated June 7, 1956.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Waco
- Model
- ASO · all ASOs 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 biplane of the 1920s and 1930s: steel-tube fuselage, wooden wings, fabric covering. This is how the Waco ASO 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
- A-9
- 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 · Lycoming R680-4P-B4 · 225 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1928
- Cruising speed
- 79 mph
- Transponder code
- A76F28 (octal 51667450)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 24, 2020
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 13, 2023
- Airworthiness
- RestrictedFAA airworthiness class code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Agriculture and pest controlFAA certificate purpose code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 7, 1956
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00861565
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Paul Richard
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 4425 W Vandergrift Ave
Fresno, CA 93722-9717
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N5785 links to the rest of the register
- Waco ASO 33 registered
- Waco 657 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
- Lycoming R680-4P-B4 120 aircraft with this engine series · 225 hp
- Fresno, CA 294 aircraft registered in this town
- Fresno Yosemite International · FAT
- Fresno Chandler Executive · FCH
- Sierra Sky Park Airport · E79
- California 27,655 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N5785, 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 Paul Richard, an individual, certificate issued March 24, 2020, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 7, 1956, 28 years after the 1928 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 A-9 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5785 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 N5785. 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 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 28, 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 28, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data