Waco CTO
N845V is a Waco CTO, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1930. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Bell Aviation INC, a corporation in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 17, 2007 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated May 12, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Waco
- Model
- CTO · all CTOs and related versions
- Serial number
- 3225
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Wright 760A B D E&ET · 250 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1930
- Cruising speed
- 79 mph
- Transponder code
- AB9447 (octal 52712107)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 17, 2007
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · May 12, 1956
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00572951
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bell Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 511190
Milwaukee, WI 53203-0201
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.
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The public federal record on N845V, 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 Bell Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 17, 2007, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 12, 1956, 26 years after the 1930 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 3225 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N845V 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 N845V: Accident on February 25, 2008 at Venice, FL: minor 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 pilot's improper use of brakes during the landing roll.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA08CA067 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