Bensen B-8M
N4938 is a Bensen B-8M, a gyroplane with a two-stroke engine, built in 1971. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Hawley, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 26, 1973 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bensen
- Model
- B-8M · all B-8Ms and related versions
- Serial number
- 1
- Type
- Gyroplane
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Mcculloch 4318A&E/0-100 · 72 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1971
- Cruising speed
- 45 mph
- Transponder code
- A61EAD (octal 51417255)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 26, 1973
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00760615
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Johnston Stephen P
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 27107 12Th Ave S
Hawley, MN 56549-9139
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N4938, 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 Johnston Stephen P, an individual, certificate issued July 26, 1973, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
This airframe (serial 1) previously flew as N10030, N109GT, N1318, N1738, N1874, N2096, N2170, N2564, N2971G, N3659, N3827, N3876, N39009, N4039, N4156A, N4280, N4540, N4840, N55232, N5758, N6013, N6134U, N7528, N8340, N86697, N9203, N9638Z. N2971G cancelled February 5, 2022; N109GT cancelled May 4, 2019; N39009 cancelled April 5, 2018; N3659 cancelled April 5, 2018. The conveyance sequence lives in the FAA aircraft records file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4938 according to the deregistered file. [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 N10030, N109GT, N1318, N1738, N1874, N2096, N2170, N2564, N2971G, N3659, N3827, N3876, N39009, N4039, N4156A, N4280, N4540, N4840, N4938, N55232, N5758, N6013, N6134U, N7528, N8340, N86697, N9203, N9638Z. 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