Stinson 108-2
N8018R is a Stinson 108-2, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Reno, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 3, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated November 2, 1995.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Stinson
- Model
- 108-2 · all 108-2s and related versions
- Serial number
- 1082327
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Franklin 6A4165 SERIES · 165 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- AAE914 (octal 52564424)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 3, 2023
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- March 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · November 2, 1995
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00004768
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Benson Gene N
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 9170 Wigwam Way
Reno, NV 89506-9753 - Co-owners
- Gillette Erika
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N8018R, 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 Benson Gene N, a co-owned, certificate issued March 3, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1082327 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8018R was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech A24R (serial MC-8, cancelled February 27, 2013). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N8018R: Accident on December 29, 1988 at Grass Valley, CA: 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: Beech A24R · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX89LA072 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
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