Waco UPF 7
Specifications
- Year: 1940
- Make: Waco
- Model: UPF 7
- Wingspan: 30 ft
- Length Overall: 23 ft 1 in
- Number of Passengers: 2 pax
- Engine Manufacturer: Continental W-670
- Horsepower: 220hp
- Propeller: Curtiss Reed
- Cruising Speed: 114mph
- Number Manufactured: 600
- Price after Production: $9,500.00
- Restored By: Rare Aircraft
Words of Recognition
The Waco UPF 7 is, apart from Waco Classic’s highly modified YMF 5, the most well known Waco biplane. In part this is because so many have been restored, because so many were made (over 600) and in part because of the well deserved reputation of Rare Aircraft of Faribault, Minnesota who’s primary business is restoring amazing examples….READ MORE
Awards
My airplane hasn’t won and awards that I know of. Rare Aircraft has won lots of them for their Waco and other antique restorations so I’m sure if they’d showed this plane back in 2008 when they restored it they’d have taken a Lindy home.
Why this Waco UPF?
I am unaware of any special history for this plane except that it, like thousands of others trained the pilots of the Greatest Generation to fly. When Clay and I took off from Faribault we headed straight to KSYN Stanton Field in Stanton, Minnesota which was a UPF 7 primary training base in WWII. Coming over the corn and…READ MORE
