Stinson SM-8A
N483Y is a Stinson SM-8A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1931. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Classic Air INC, a corporation in Paso Robles, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 13, 2023 and expires on October 31, 2030. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated May 29, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Stinson
- Model
- SM-8A · all SM-8As and related versions
- Serial number
- 4297
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming R680E SERIES · 300 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1931
- Cruising speed
- 123 mph
- Transponder code
- A5F5E4 (octal 51372744)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 13, 2023
- Expires
- October 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 13, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · May 29, 1956
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00850265
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Classic Air INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 4301 Cloud Way
Paso Robles, CA 93446-8378
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 N483Y, 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 Classic Air INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 13, 2023, expires October 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 29, 1956, 25 years after the 1931 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 4297 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N483Y 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 N483Y. 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