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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 5, 2026Stinson SM-2
N6871 is a Stinson SM-2, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1928. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Brodhead, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 23, 2023 and expires on December 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Stinson
- Model
- SM-2
- Serial number
- 1007
- 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 · Warner SS40&50 · 90 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1928
- Cruising speed
- 71 mph
- Transponder code
- A91FB3 (octal 52217663)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 23, 2023
- Expires
- December 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- December 23, 2023
- 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
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00173961
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Davis Trenten e
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- N2399 Airport Rd
Brodhead, WI 53520-9100
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 N6871 links to the rest of the register
- Stinson 1,730 aircraft on the register
- Warner SS40&50 150 aircraft with this engine series · 90 hp
- Brodhead, WI 53 aircraft registered in this town
- Brodhead Airport · C37
- Wisconsin 6,163 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N6871.json.
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The public federal record on N6871, 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 Davis Trenten e, an individual, certificate issued December 23, 2023, expires December 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1007 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N6871 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 N6871. 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 November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 5, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data