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    Airframe Family: Weaver Aircraft Company (WACO) F Series
    Latest Model:QCF
    Construction Number:3562
    Last Civil Registration:N11482
    Compressed ID:Weaver Aircraft Company (WACO) QCF...
    Latest Owner or Location:Biscayne Biplanes Llc, Homestead, FL

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    Dates

    Event

    1931

    Constructed as a QCF.

    9 October 1931

    To Manitowac Air Service Inc, Manitowac, WI with new c/r NC11482.

    16 March 1932

    To Herbert C Kurth, Milwaukee, WI keeping c/r NC11482.

    20 May 1933

    To Walter C. Hartman, Pittsburg, PA keeping c/r NC11482.

    15 September 1933

    To Paul Peterson, Altoona, PN keeping c/r NC11482.

    16 September 1935

    To L. J. Perry, Kalamazoo, MI keeping c/r NC11482.

    9 November 1936

    To Burr S. Bush, Chicago, IL keeping c/r NC11482.

    9 November 1937

    To Devon Levi, Maywood, CA keeping c/r NC11482.

    23 December 1938

    Involved in an incident.
    Airplane ground looped on landing and nosed over at Compton, CA. Major repairs were required.

    Repaired.

    24 December 1938

    To Compton Air Service/R. L. Beherns, Compton, CA keeping c/r NC11482.

    16 January 1939

    To Clyde C. Corley, San Diego, CA keeping c/r NC11482.

    25 June 1941

    To Reid Talmage Woodward, Coronado, CA keeping c/r NC11482.

    14 June 1943

    Involved in an incident.
    Accident appears in record, no information - propeller was replaced, wing repairs, all 3 landing gear repaired/replaced.

    24 June 1943

    To Olympia Air Transport, Sunnyside, WA keeping c/r NC11482.

    26 October 1944

    Design change proposed to remove Continental A-20 engine, replace with Wright 540E engine.

    2 October 1945

    To Frank Barker and Walter Dean, Conway, WA keeping c/r NC11482.
    (converted to Ag Sprayer).

    20 February 1948

    Design change proposed to remove 175HP Wright 540E and replace with a 220HP Continental W670.

    6 June 1954

    To Russel Longnecker, MT. Vernon, WA keeping c/r NC11482.

    3 March 1955

    To Ron Zerbal, Manson, WA keeping c/r NC11482.

    10 March 1955

    To Harold Fairchild, Moses Lake, WA keeping c/r NC11482.

    11 October 1957

    Converted from AG Sprayer to Passenger (Original Configuration) and Banner Towing including a Hamilton Standard Ground Adj Prop 5405 Model A1C1-6 Blades.

    22 May 1970

    Certificate of airworthiness for N11482 (QCF, 3562) issued.

    23 May 1970

    To Kenneth Coppinger, Ecko, OR keeping c/r NC11482.

    21 March 1976


    Photographer: Baltimore Sun Newspaper
    Notes: Photo purchased from the Baltimore Sun by Al Reinauer and posted by Mr. Reinauer.

    27 June 1981


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: In Hamilton, OH.

    17 June 1987

    To Frank Fox, Pittsburg, PA with new c/r N11482.

    26 August 1989

    To Bill Quinn, Columbia Missouri keeping c/r N11482.

    20 October 2000

    To Robert M. Reinauer, Stonewall, OK keeping c/r N11482.

    2007


    Photographer: Alvin Reinauer
    Notes: Photo taken at Ada Oklahoma Hanger

    Converted to an Ag Sprayer.

    12 December 2011

    To Alvin J. Reinauer, Key Largo, FL keeping c/r N11482.

    29 March 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 1931 Built Waco at 2012 Sun N Fun, Lakeland, Florida

    1 May 2014


    Photographer: R Hill
    Notes: Photo taken near LaBelle FL 2014

    9 September 2014

    To unknown owner with c/r N11482.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Key Largo, FL.

    16 October 2014

    To unknown owner with c/r N11482.
    Registration pending to a new owner in Key Largo, FL.

    17 February 2015

    To Biscayne Biplanes Llc, Homestead, FL keeping c/r N11482.

    4 April 2019


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: Sun-N-Fun, Lakeland, FL.

    4 April 2019


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: Sun-N-Fun, Lakeland, FL.

    By 10 November 2022

    Contracted to Bipe Inc, Andrews, NC for work on the airframe.

    10 November 2022

    Restoration started.
    Expected return to airworthiness July 2023.


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    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America

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    Mike Henniger
    Alvin Reinauer

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