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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 10, 2026Waco Classic Aircraft YMF-F5C
N89515 is a Waco Classic Aircraft YMF-F5C, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1998. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Focus Air LLC, an LLC in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 22, 2023 and expires on June 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 11, 1998.
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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
- F5C084
- 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 R755B SERIES · 275 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- AC5A80 (octal 53055200)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 22, 2023
- Expires
- June 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- June 22, 2023
- 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 · December 11, 1998
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00553806
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Focus 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
- 3511 Silverside Rd Ste 105
Wilmington, DE 19810-4902
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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 N89515 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 R755B series 210 aircraft with this engine series · 275 hp
- Focus Air LLC 4 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Wilmington, DE 7,373 aircraft registered in this town
- New Castle Airport · ILG
- Delaware 10,962 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 N89515, 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 Focus Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 22, 2023, expires June 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 11, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F5C084 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N89515 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 152 (serial 15282766, cancelled December 5, 2006); Cessna 140 (serial 8551, cancelled November 3, 1954). 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 N89515: Accident on December 18, 1994 at Opa-Locka, FL: 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: Cessna 152 · operated under 091
THE STUDENT PILOTS FAILURE TO FOLLOW THE CHECKLIST AND ASSURE THE DOOR WAS CLOSED PRIOR TO TAKEOFF. CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACCIDENT WAS THE STUDENT'S DIVERTED ATTENTION DURING THE TAKEOFF ROLL.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data