Morgan Barney B BENSEN B-8M
N2980 is a Morgan Barney B BENSEN B-8M, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1980. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Valley Grande, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 7, 1981 and expires on June 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 28, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Morgan Barney B
- Model
- BENSEN B-8M
- Serial number
- 8450
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Mcculloch 4318A&E/0-100 · 72 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1980
- Transponder code
- A3158A (octal 50612612)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 7, 1981
- Expires
- June 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 11, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · May 28, 1980
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00090883
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Morgan Barney B
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2067 Persimmon Tree Rd
Valley Grande, AL 36701-3105
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N2980, 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 Morgan Barney B, an individual, certificate issued January 7, 1981, expires June 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated May 28, 1980, consistent with the 1980 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 8450 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2980 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Curtiss JN4D (serial 33847, cancelled January 10, 1930). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N2980. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- 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 August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data