Stinson 108-3
N685C is a Stinson 108-3, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1947. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Poplar Grove, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 18, 1991 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated February 28, 1983.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Stinson
- Model
- 108-3 · all 108-3s and related versions
- Serial number
- 108-3685
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Franklin 6A4165 SERIES · 165 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1947
- Cruising speed
- 94 mph
- Transponder code
- A915FC (octal 52212774)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 18, 1991
- Expires
- June 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 19, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · February 28, 1983
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00120097
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ropp Harry F
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 11221 Lindbergh Ln
Poplar Grove, IL 61065-8276
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 N685C, 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 Ropp Harry F, an individual, certificate issued September 18, 1991, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 28, 1983, 36 years after the 1947 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 108-3685 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N685C 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N685C. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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