Stinson 108
N97628 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 an individual in Davis, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 10, 2014 and expires on April 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated March 13, 1959.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Stinson
- Model
- 108 · all 108s and related versions
- Serial number
- 108-628
- 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
- AD9CAE (octal 53316256)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 10, 2014
- Expires
- April 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · March 13, 1959
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00723900
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Spore Raymond W Trustee
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 910 Douglas Ave
Davis, CA 95616-3611
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 N97628, 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 Spore Raymond W Trustee, an individual, certificate issued April 10, 2014, expires April 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 13, 1959, 13 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 108-628 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N97628 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 N97628: Accident on September 1, 1989 at Cool, 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: Stinson 108 · operated under 091
FAILURE OF THE #2 PISTON. FAILURE OF THE MECHANIC TO PROPERLY OVERHAUL THE ENGINE WAS A RELATED FACTOR.
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