Stinson 108-3
N6805M is a Stinson 108-3, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1948. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Ft Worth, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 1, 2015 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated August 19, 1959.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Stinson
- Model
- 108-3 · all 108-3s and related versions
- Serial number
- 108-4805
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Franklin 6A4165 SERIES · 165 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1948
- Cruising speed
- 94 mph
- Transponder code
- A9064A (octal 52203112)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 1, 2015
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · August 19, 1959
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00613556
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Austin James M
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1704 Sheffield Pl
Ft Worth, TX 76112-3220
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.
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The public federal record on N6805M, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Austin James M, an individual, certificate issued September 1, 2015, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 19, 1959, 11 years after the 1948 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 108-4805 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N6805M according to the deregistered file. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
1 NTSB record under N6805M: Accident on May 15, 2008 at Roanoke, TX: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Stinson 108-3 · operated under 091
The departing pilot's inadequate visual lookout resulting in his airplane colliding with the landing airplane. Contributing to the accident was the trees/visual obstructions along the runway's approach path.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DFW08LA144 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data