Mitchell Ronald C BENSON GYRO
N1980A is a Mitchell Ronald C BENSON GYRO, a gyroplane with a four-stroke engine, built in 2007. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Liberty Twp, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 13, 2013 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated January 23, 2008.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Mitchell Ronald C
- Model
- BENSON GYRO
- Serial number
- MRB 01207
- Type
- Gyroplane
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Subaru ALL MDLS A/B · 400 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2007
- Transponder code
- A1883C (octal 50304074)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 13, 2013
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · January 23, 2008
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00414849
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mullen Gary J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 5155 Grandin Ridge Dr
Liberty Twp, OH 45011-8312
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
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The public federal record on N1980A, 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 Mullen Gary J, an individual, certificate issued March 13, 2013, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated January 23, 2008, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial MRB 01207 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1980A was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Ditommaso-Kaminski GREAT LAKES 2T-1A (serial 7123D-501, cancelled March 2, 2004); Piper PA-18A (serial 18-1803, cancelled September 24, 1954). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N1980A: Accident on March 22, 2003 at Daytona Beach, FL: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Ditommasso-Keminski Great Lakes 2T-1A · operated under 091
The pilot's improper preflight planning/decision to perform a second flight with known deficiencies in equipment, and his failure to maintain airspeed above the airplane's stall speed while maneuvering to reverse direction to land, after the engine subsequently ceased to operate, which resulted in a stall/mush, an inflight lost of control, an uncontrolled descent, and an impact with a ditch.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data