Stinson 108-3
N798C 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 Roanoke, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 28, 2025 and expires on September 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated August 23, 1955.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Stinson
- Model
- 108-3 · all 108-3s and related versions
- Serial number
- 108-3798
- 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
- AAD5EF (octal 52552757)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 28, 2025
- Expires
- September 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- September 28, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · August 23, 1955
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00045300
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Boyd Joseph Tate
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 11561 Airway Blvd
Roanoke, TX 76262-5788
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 N798C, 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 Boyd Joseph Tate, an individual, certificate issued September 28, 2025, expires September 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 23, 1955, 8 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 108-3798 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N798C 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 N798C: Accident on November 3, 1996 at Tyler, 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
a loss of engine power due to failure of the crankshaft. A factor was the lack of suitable terrain for the forced landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW97LA035 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