Stearman Aircraft C3-R
N8840 is a Stearman Aircraft C3-R, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1929. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Wapato, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 25, 1980 and expires on June 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 18, 1972.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Stearman Aircraft
- Model
- C3-R · all C3-Rs and related versions
- Serial number
- 5003
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Wright 760A B D E&ET · 250 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1929
- Cruising speed
- 82 mph
- Transponder code
- AC2F09 (octal 53027411)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 25, 1980
- Expires
- June 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 11, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · October 18, 1972
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00281931
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Babcock Greg J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1305 Nightingale Rd
Wapato, WA 98951
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 N8840, 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 Babcock Greg J, an individual, certificate issued January 25, 1980, expires June 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 18, 1972, 43 years after the 1929 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 5003 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8840 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 N8840. 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