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N8518L

Waco GXE

Valid Illinois

N8518L 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 Koerner Aviation INC, a corporation in Kankakee, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 11, 2013 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
GXE
Serial number
1885
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
3
Year built
1929
Cruising speed
119 mph
Transponder code
ABAE8A (octal 52727212)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 11, 2013
Expires
February 28, 2029
Last FAA action
July 18, 2023
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00497181

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Koerner Aviation INC
Type
Corporation
Address
1520 S State Route 115
Kankakee, IL 60901-7792

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

1974-05-31Piper PA-25-235 · exported to Australia · Valid registration
—Cessna 337A · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data