Fields Ralph BENSEN B8M
N81219 is a Fields Ralph BENSEN B8M, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1992. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Marion, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 17, 1994 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 19, 1992.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Fields Ralph
- Model
- BENSEN B8M
- Serial number
- 777RF
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Subaru ALL MDLS A/B · 400 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1992
- Transponder code
- AB1367 (octal 52611547)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 17, 1994
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · June 19, 1992
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00504481
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Purdy Dwight E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 180 S 500 W
Marion, IN 46953
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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 N81219, 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 Purdy Dwight E, an individual, certificate issued March 17, 1994, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated June 19, 1992, consistent with the 1992 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 777RF for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N81219 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-181 (serial 28-8090148, cancelled November 20, 1979); Fairchild 24W-46 (serial W46120, cancelled June 30, 1970). 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 N81219. 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