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    Airframe Family: Stinson 108
    Latest Model:108
    Construction Number:108-0183
    Last Civil Registration:N97183
    Compressed ID:Stinson 108 cn 108-0183 cr N97183
    Latest Owner or Location:Gunrunners Llc, West Des Moines, IA

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    Dates

    Event

    1946

    Constructed as a 108.
    FAA shows model type 108-1 due to an error, and owners did not correct the error.

    3 September 1955

    Certificate of airworthiness for N97183 (108-1, 108-183) issued.

    By 1963

    To Neway Products, Salt Lake City, UT with new c/r N97183.

    From By 1971 to By 1998

    To M O. Eddleman, McCamey, TX keeping c/r N97183.

    2001

    Restored.
    Completely dismantled and then restored.

    1 January 2003

    Certificate of airworthiness for N97183 (108-1, 108-183) issued.

    1 August 2006

    To Gross Aviation LC, Clear Lake, IA keeping c/r N97183.

    31 October 2006

    To Richard S. Rogers, West Des Moines, IA keeping c/r N97183.

    23 February 2008


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: Photographed late evening from the control tower at Cedar Rapids Airport, IA

    By 11 July 2009


    Photographer: Ralph H. Briggs
    Notes: Taken north of Des Moines near Saylorville Lake, July 2009.

    September 2016


    Photographer: G R Dennis Price
    Notes: At Galesburg Municipal

    19 April 2017

    To Gunrunners Llc, West Des Moines, IA keeping c/r N97183.

    27 November 2019

    To Gunrunners Llc, West Des Moines, IA keeping c/r N97183.
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