I am a new-be to your forum. The reason for my joining is that I am a scale model builder who has always wanted to build a scale SR 9. In my internet travels I found N9116H - Owned by Mark & Don Henley. I would like to get in contact with them so that I can visit the aircraft and verify a set of drawings that I have. Any help you provide in this quest would be greatly appreciated.
william J. Miller
suenwmiller@wi.rr.com
This FAA link will show you the current owner/address:
http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=9116H
All Stinson SR-9 in FAA DB
http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/AcftRef_Results.aspx?Mfrtxt=STINSON&Modeltxt=SR-9&PageNo=1
JH
The FAA link shows the aircraft to be a 1944 V-77, which was derived from the Stinson SR-10, not from the earlier SR-9 Stinson series. The current FAA registration shows it as a Stinson. However, in 1940 Vultee purchased Stinson, so a 1944 V-77 should be of Vultee manufacture.
Re-registrations by subsequent owners of an aircraft (sometimes with a lapse) may result in such errors, and the FAA usually takes what the new owner provides for nomenclature, etc. Changes to correct such errors cost money and require documentation and thus registration errors errors usually prevail. In a similar situation in inquiring to correct an error, the FAA asked an owner friend of mine "Do you really want to go there?"
If you want to build one of the SR-9 series models, the V-77 would not be an entirely correct or appropriate reference.
You might wish to read my Stinson Reliant article on this site for further history and Stinson Reliant model differences. I share your interest in the SR-9; I built a model of one about 1943-44 from a commercial kit. I also have some SR-9 photographs on this site.
