Stinson JR. SR
N81Y is a Stinson JR. SR, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1933. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Greenfield, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 14, 2023 and expires on June 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated June 10, 1950.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Stinson
- Model
- JR. SR · all JR. SRs and related versions
- Serial number
- 8729
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming R680-4P-B4 · 225 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1933
- Cruising speed
- 150 mph
- Transponder code
- AB0929 (octal 52604451)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 14, 2023
- Expires
- June 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- June 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · June 10, 1950
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00151460
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Harter Michael R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 5474 E 650 N
Greenfield, IN 46140-9039
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N81Y, 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 Harter Michael R, an individual, certificate issued June 14, 2023, expires June 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 10, 1950, 17 years after the 1933 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 8729 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N81Y was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech AT-11 (serial 1402, cancelled March 30, 1960). 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 N81Y: Accident on July 29, 2021 at Ripon, WI: minor 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 JR. SR · operated under 091
A total loss of engine power due to fuel starvation.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN21LA343 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