Formanek Carl F RV-3F
N98RV is a Formanek Carl F RV-3F, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1986. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Glen Flora, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 7, 1984 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated December 8, 1986.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Formanek Carl F
- Model
- RV-3F
- Serial number
- 477
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-290 SERIES · 140 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1986
- Transponder code
- ADAA56 (octal 53325126)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 7, 1984
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · December 8, 1986
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00412903
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Formanek Carl F
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- W4170 Buttercup Dr
Glen Flora, WI 54526
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N98RV, 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 Formanek Carl F, an individual, certificate issued May 7, 1984, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated December 8, 1986, consistent with the 1986 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 477 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N98RV 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 N98RV. 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 September 30, 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