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    Airframe Family: Stinson 108
    Latest Model:108-2
    Construction Number:108-3247
    Last Civil Registration:N247C
    Compressed ID:Stinson 108-2 cn 108-3247 cr N247C
    Latest Owner or Location:James O. Norman, Usaf Academy, CO

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    Dates

    Event

    1947

    Constructed as a 108-2.
    STINSON 108-2 108-3247

    1 July 1955

    Certificate of airworthiness for N247C (108-2, 108-3247) issued.

    By 1963

    To Desmet Rendering Company, Desmet, SD with new c/r N247C.

    From By 1971 to After 1978

    To Reese S. Cudworth, Sheyenne, ND keeping c/r N247C.

    1991

    To Richard P. Flannery, Atkinson, NE keeping c/r N247C.

    12 June 1997

    To Roger E. Orr, Santa Paula, CA keeping c/r N247C.

    5 December 2001

    To Richard W. Wagner, Lewiston, ID keeping c/r N247C.

    28 August 2009

    To Matthew T. Schantz, Parker, CO keeping c/r N247C.

    22 January 2012

    To Matthew T. Schantz, Parker, CO keeping c/r N247C.

    25 June 2012

    Crashed.
    The accident occurred at the Mile Hi Airstrip Airport (N/A) Mile Hi Landing Strip, ID, United States while landing. The damage was substantial. The pilot stated that he was landing at a remote grass airstrip. After touchdown, the airplane continued beyond the end of the runway and nosed over, coming to rest inverted. As a result of the accident sequence, the airplane sustained damage to the rudder and vertical stabilizer...
    For a complete description of the event read the NTSB Report.

    26 October 2012

    To Jason M. Tepool, Peyton, CO keeping c/r N247C.

    17 May 2021

    To Jason M. Tepool, Peyton, CO keeping c/r N247C.

    27 January 2022


    Photographer: Jason Tepool
    Notes: 47C has new owners. Got her moved today in the snow. While I am bummed that I did not finish this project, her new caretakers Jim and Cindy will. I could not give her the time anymore. I look forward to following their story of getting Charlie back together and in the air.

    22 July 2022

    To James O. Norman, Usaf Academy, CO keeping c/r N247C.
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