Stinson 108
N97517 is a Stinson 108, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1946. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Malvern, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 15, 2014 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated May 18, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Stinson
- Model
- 108 · all 108s and related versions
- Serial number
- 108-517
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Franklin 6A4150 SERIES · 150 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1946
- Cruising speed
- 84 mph
- Transponder code
- AD98D3 (octal 53314323)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 15, 2014
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · May 18, 1956
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00183950
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Adams John C Trustee
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 429 W Canal St
Malvern, OH 44644-9487 - Co-owners
- Adams Irenetrustee
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 N97517, 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 Adams John C Trustee, a co-owned, certificate issued July 15, 2014, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 18, 1956, 10 years after the 1946 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 108-517 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N97517 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Dehavilland L20A (serial 51-16524, cancelled March 17, 1964). 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 N97517: Accident on April 25, 2024 at Beach City, OH: 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 · operated under 091
A total loss of engine power due to the due to the pilot’s delayed application of carburetor heat.
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
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