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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 26, 2026Waco ASO
N6940 is a Waco ASO, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1929. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an owner whose details are withheld at their request. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 13, 2023 and expires on September 30, 2030. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated July 10, 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
- 3004
- 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 · Cont Motor W670 SERIES · 250 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1929
- Cruising speed
- 79 mph
- Transponder code
- A93BEA (octal 52235752)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 13, 2023
- Expires
- September 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 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 · July 10, 1956
- FAA region
- —
- FAA record id
- 00051513
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Withheld at the owner's request
- 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
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.
Earlier use of this number 2
Connections how N6940 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
- Continental W670 series 987 aircraft with this engine series · 250 hp
- FAA orders naming the Continental W670 series 1 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental W670 series 8 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N6940.json.
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The public federal record on N6940, 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 an owner whose details are withheld, an individual, certificate issued September 13, 2023, expires September 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 10, 1956, 27 years after the 1929 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 3004 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N6940 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Walker Robert R AVID FLYER (serial 123, cancelled June 18, 2007); Snider WICHAWK (serial 30, cancelled October 22, 1985). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N6940: Accident on January 4, 1983 at Camarillo, CA: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). 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: Javelin Aircraft WICHAWK · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 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 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data