Wyman Corwyn W BENSEN B-80 A
N40892 is a Wyman Corwyn W BENSEN B-80 A, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Columbia Falls, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 13, 1992 and expires on September 30, 2027. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Wyman Corwyn W
- Model
- BENSEN B-80 A
- Serial number
- CW-AB1
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A4CE07 (octal 51147007)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 13, 1992
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00303872
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wyman Corwyn W
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 480 12Th Ave Wn Box 903
Columbia Falls, MT 59912
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N40892, 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 Wyman Corwyn W, an individual, certificate issued May 13, 1992, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial CW-AB1 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N40892 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-180 (serial 287405074, cancelled September 7, 1990). 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 N40892: Accident on September 17, 1989 at Haymarket, VA: minor injuries, destroyed. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-28-180 · operated under 091
IMPROPER USE OF THE FUEL SELECTOR, WHICH RESULTED IN FUEL STARVATION & LOSS OF ENGINE POWER; AND IMPROPER USE OF EMERGENCY PROCEDURES AFTER LOSS OF ENGINE POWER. THE PRESENCE OF HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS (TREES) IN THE APPROACH PATH TO THE EMERGENCY LANDING AREA WAS A FACTOR.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for BFO89LA080 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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