{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1955-10-07","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"","city":"BATAVIA","country_code":"US","county_code":"025","cruise_speed_mph":90,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"27025","engine_horsepower":165,"engine_maker":"FRANKLIN","engine_model":"6A4165 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-03-19","maker":"Stinson","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"STINSON","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"9230406","mode_s_code":"53304725","mode_s_hex":"AD89D5","model":"108-2","n_number":"N97108","name":"REGISTRATION PENDING","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"WINTER HAVEN","damage":"SUBS","date":"1997-01-20","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"MIA97LA068","probable_cause":"Failure of the pilot to use carburetor heat for descent resulting in engine failure due to carburetor induction icing.","registration":"N97108","state":"FL","summary":"Accident on January 20, 1997 at Winter Haven, FL: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N97108 is a Stinson 108-2, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1947. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Batavia, Ohio. The FAA lists the registration as \"registration pending\". It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 7, 1955.","records_check":[{"finding":"Registration status is \"Registration pending\". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 7, 1955, 8 years after the 1947 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.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1083344 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N97108 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Stinson 108-1 (serial 1081108, cancelled June 25, 1997). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N97108: Accident on January 20, 1997 at Winter Haven, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":4,"serial_number":"1083344","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"OH","status":"Registration pending","status_code":"R","status_short":"Pending","street":"7 SANDYS FARM LN","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00912523","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N97108","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1947,"zip":"451031637"}