Stinson 108-1
N97979 is a Stinson 108-1, 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 Healdsburg, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 2, 2025 and expires on December 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated March 15, 1957.
Where is it now Last seen October 13 at 10:23 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Stinson
- Model
- 108-1 · all 108-1s and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. Many have had the fabric replaced with metal skins under an approved modification. This is how the Stinson 108 Voyager and Station Wagon family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 108-979
- 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 · Franklin 6A4150 SERIES · 150 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1946
- Cruising speed
- 84 mph
- Transponder code
- ADA883 (octal 53324203)
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 2, 2025
- Expires
- December 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- December 2, 2025
- 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 · March 15, 1957
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00653830
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Simmons Donald K
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 807 Heidelberger Way
Healdsburg, CA 95448-9673 - Co-owners
- Simmons Kathleen L
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 N97979 links to the rest of the register
- Stinson 108 Voyager and Station Wagon 1,270 registered
- Stinson 1,730 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Franklin 6A4150 series 623 aircraft with this engine series · 150 hp
- Healdsburg, CA 42 aircraft registered in this town
- Healdsburg Municipal · HES
- California 27,610 aircraft registered
- Approved modifications for the Stinson 108 Voyager and Station Wagon 10 supplemental type certificates
- Where N97979 is now · Last seen October 13 at 10:23 am.
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The public federal record on N97979, 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 Simmons Donald K, a co-owned, certificate issued December 2, 2025, expires December 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 15, 1957, 11 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 108-979 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N97979 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 N97979: Accident on February 28, 1988 at Burlington, VT: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Stinson 108-1 · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data