Stinson 108-3
N4072C is a Stinson 108-3, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1949. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Medina, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 14, 2006 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated April 17, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Stinson
- Model
- 108-3 · all 108-3s and related versions
- Serial number
- 108-5072
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Franklin 6A4165 SERIES · 165 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1949
- Cruising speed
- 94 mph
- Transponder code
- A4C943 (octal 51144503)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 14, 2006
- Expires
- February 28, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · April 17, 1956
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00981234
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Orians Brian E
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 2861 Franklin Dr
Medina, OH 44256-9055 - Co-owners
- Orians Susan E
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 N4072C, 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 Orians Brian E, a co-owned, certificate issued November 14, 2006, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 17, 1956, 7 years after the 1949 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 108-5072 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4072C 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 N4072C: Accident on August 15, 1999 at Johnson Creek, WI: 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 pilot's failure to maintain directional control of the airplane.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI99LA294 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data