Description:
1929 WACO CTO Taperwing with 579.5 hours total time and 79.5 hours since a comprehensive restoration completed in 2003 by Frank Pavliga. It is powered by an FAA-approved Wright R-760-8 with 79.5 hours SMOH and is equipped with a Hamilton Standard two-blade propeller. The restoration returned the aircraft to CTO Taperwing configuration and conformity with ATC 257, and the aircraft received a Standard Airworthiness Certificate as a WACO CTO following its May 2003 conformity inspection.
• Registration: N657N
• Serial Number: 3166
• WACO CTO Taperwing
• Antique/Classic
• Standard Airworthiness Certificate
• Total Airframe Time: 579.5 hours
• 79.5 hours since restoration
• Restoration completed in 2003
• Restored by Frank Pavliga between 1996 and 2003
• Restoration performed to return aircraft to original CTO Taperwing configuration
• Restoration conformed to ATC 257
• New Taperwing wing set constructed during restoration
• Four new wing panels
• New center section
• Four new ailerons
• Original wing hardware and brace wires utilized
• New Sitka Spruce wood used in wing construction
• Fuselage rebuilt to original WACO Drawing 7
• Original fuselage control system retained
• New stabilizer, elevators, vertical fin and rudder
• New Taperwing strut set
• New landing gear vees
• New front and rear seats
• New fuel and oil tanks
• New fuselage formers, stringers and floor panels
• New aluminum fuselage bulkheads, fascia and instrument panel
• New firewall
• New external fuselage sheet metal and engine cowling
• Engine: Wright R-760-8
• Engine Time: 79.5 hours SMOH
• Wright R-760-8 installed as an approved replacement for the original Wright J6-7
• Engine Output: 225 HP
• Seller lists engine TBO as 1,200 hours
• Hamilton Standard 1639/1519 two-blade propeller
• Tailwheel installed in place of original tailskid
• Ball-bearing wheels installed in place of original sleeve-bearing wheels
• Ceconite covering system
• Nitrate/butyrate covering process
• Pigmented butyrate dope finish
• Paint and trim patterned after original photographs
• Restoration/conformity inspection completed May 21, 2003
• Standard Airworthiness Certificate issued May 21, 2003
• Complete logs
• Annual inspection completed November 2026
Point of Contact: Platinum Fighter Sales — (800) 210-1951
