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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bensen
- Model
- B-8M · all B-8Ms and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and aluminiumA welded steel-tube frame carries the loads, with aluminium (and some fibreglass) skins over it. A gyroplane: an open steel-tube frame. This is how the Bensen B-8 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 1
- Type
- GyroplaneFAA type of aircraft code 9 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Two-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 7 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 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 registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 26, 1973
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00760615
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Johnston Stephen P
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 27107 12Th Ave S
Hawley, MN 56549-9139
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N4938 links to the rest of the register
- Bensen B-8 5 registered
- Bensen 6 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Mcculloch 4318A&E/O-100 41 aircraft with this engine series · 72 hp
- Hawley, MN 17 aircraft registered in this town
- Hawley Municipal · 04Y
- Minnesota 6,936 aircraft registered
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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; N3659 cancelled April 5, 2018; N39009 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 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data