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N861M

Waco BSO

N861M is a Waco BSO, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1929. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Burlington, North Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 21, 2000 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated September 27, 2025.

Aircraft

Maker
Waco
Model
BSO
Serial number
3006
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Wright R760 · 250 hp
Seats
3
Year built
1929
Cruising speed
79 mph
Transponder code
ABD3A1 (octal 52751641)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 21, 2000
Expires
January 31, 2030
Last FAA action
September 30, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Exhibition · September 27, 2025
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00962501

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Pietsch Kent D
Type
Individual
Address
PO Box 356
Burlington, ND 58722-0356

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.

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