Stinson 108-3
N6453M is a Stinson 108-3, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1948. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Fairbanks, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 23, 1998 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated July 16, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Stinson
- Model
- 108-3 · all 108-3s and related versions
- Serial number
- 108-4453
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Franklin 6A4165 SERIES · 165 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1948
- Cruising speed
- 94 mph
- Transponder code
- A87A9B (octal 52075233)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 23, 1998
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 13, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · July 16, 1956
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00342396
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Willford Steven F
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 745 Friars Way
Fairbanks, AK 99709
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 N6453M, 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 Willford Steven F, an individual, certificate issued April 23, 1998, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 16, 1956, 8 years after the 1948 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 108-4453 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N6453M 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 N6453M: Accident on March 5, 2000 at Fairbanks, AK: 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 inadvertent ground loop.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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