Waco CTO
N7446 is a Waco CTO, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 3 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Sonoma, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 9, 2019 and expires on February 28, 2029. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Waco
- Model
- CTO · all CTOs and related versions
- Serial number
- A-19
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · None NONE
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 79 mph
- Transponder code
- AA0490 (octal 52402220)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 9, 2019
- Expires
- February 28, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00042557
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bowe Walter C Trustee
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 19500 7Th St E
Sonoma, CA 95476-7201 - Co-owners
- Mendieta Carlene A Trustee
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
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N7446, 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 Bowe Walter C Trustee, a co-owned, certificate issued February 9, 2019, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial A-19 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N7446 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Grumman G-164A (serial 952, cancelled December 5, 1972); Vickers VISCOUNT 745-D (serial 202, cancelled January 29, 1968). 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 N7446: Accident on August 7, 2005 at Shelbyville, IL: no injuries, substantial damage. 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: Waco CTO · operated under 091
The loss of engine power during cruise due to carburetor ice. A factor was conditions conducive to carburetor icing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI05CA172 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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