{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"1973-07-26","city":"HAWLEY","country_code":"US","county_code":"027","cruise_speed_mph":45,"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":"2027-10-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"gyroplanes","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-03-24","maker":"Bensen","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BENSEN","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1300516","mode_s_code":"51417255","mode_s_hex":"A61EAD","model":"B-8M","n_number":"N4938","name":"JOHNSTON STEPHEN P","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"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.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Johnston Stephen P, an individual, certificate issued July 26, 1973, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N4938 according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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 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.","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":"1","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MN","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"27107 12TH AVE S","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Gyroplane","type_aircraft_code":"9","type_engine":"Two-cycle piston","type_engine_code":"7","unique_id":"00760615","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N4938","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1971,"zip":"565499139"}