{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"1996-10-15","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"1994-04-06","city":"FAIRBORN","country_code":"US","county_code":"057","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"43101","engine_horsepower":72,"engine_maker":"MCCULLOCH","engine_model":"4318A&E/0-100","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-03-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-10-13","maker":"Whittridge Richard D","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"WHITTRIDGE RICHARD D","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05624YP","mode_s_code":"50357143","mode_s_hex":"A1DE63","model":"BENSON B-8M","n_number":"N2198B","name":"WHITTRIDGE RICHARD D","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N2198B is a Whittridge Richard D BENSON B-8M, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1996. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Fairborn, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 6, 1994 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 15, 1996.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Whittridge Richard D, an individual, certificate issued April 6, 1994, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated October 15, 1996, consistent with the 1996 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial EX-1 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N2198B was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Gilbert P Prentice TWIN STAR (serial TS11209, cancelled October 25, 1990); Piper PA-44-180 (serial 44-7995103, cancelled November 22, 1978); Luscombe T-8F (serial 6625, cancelled May 19, 1965). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No NTSB investigation records located under N2198B. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"EX-1","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"OH","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"452 HILLTOP DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00024772","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N2198B","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1996,"zip":"453245583"}