Stinson 108-2
N428C is a Stinson 108-2, 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 Missoula, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 7, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Stinson
- Model
- 108-2 · all 108-2s and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. Many have had the fabric replaced with metal skins under an approved modification. This is how the Stinson 108 Voyager and Station Wagon family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 108-3428
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Franklin 6A4165 SERIES · 165 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1949
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- A51989 (octal 51214611)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 7, 2025
- Expires
- July 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2025
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00511944
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Varani Christopher F
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1776 River Rd
Missoula, MT 59801-1445 - Co-owners
- Varani Sara R
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.
Connections how N428C links to the rest of the register
- Stinson 108 Voyager and Station Wagon 1,270 registered
- Stinson 1,730 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Franklin 6A4165 series 770 aircraft with this engine series · 165 hp
- Missoula, MT 762 aircraft registered in this town
- Missoula Montana Airport · MSO
- Montana 6,045 aircraft registered
- Approved modifications for the Stinson 108 Voyager and Station Wagon 10 supplemental type certificates
- Failure reports on the Franklin 6A4165 series 44 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N428C.json.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N428C, 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 Varani Christopher F, a co-owned, certificate issued July 7, 2025, expires July 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 108-3428 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N428C 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 N428C. 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 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 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 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data