Waco GXE
N903H is a Waco GXE, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1929. It has 3 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Valparaiso, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 17, 2014 and expires on July 31, 2027. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Waco
- Model
- GXE · all GXEs 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 GXE 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
- 2037
- 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
- 119 mph
- Transponder code
- AC7B00 (octal 53075400)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 17, 2014
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00451321
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hicks James W
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 7 Timber Ridge Ct
Valparaiso, IN 46385-8513 - Co-owners
- Hicks Jillayne K
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.
Connections how N903H links to the rest of the register
- Waco GXE 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
- Valparaiso, IN 151 aircraft registered in this town
- Porter County Regional · VPZ
- Indiana 5,700 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Waco GXE 1 reports since 1995
- 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/N903H.json.
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The public federal record on N903H, 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 Hicks James W, a co-owned, certificate issued July 17, 2014, expires July 31, 2027. 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 2037 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N903H 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]
2 NTSB records under N903H: Accident on June 11, 2005 at Paducah, KY: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on April 23, 1998 at Americus, GA: 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.
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NTSB records 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Waco GXE · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during landing resulting in a ground loop and impact with the runway. A factor in the accident was the limited authority of the tailwheel steering system.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Waco 10 GXE · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control and his improper compensation for wind. Contributing was a crosswind.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data