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N2198B

Whittridge Richard D BENSON B-8M

Valid Ohio

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.

Aircraft

Maker
Whittridge Richard D
Model
BENSON B-8M
Serial number
EX-1
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Mcculloch 4318A&E/0-100 · 72 hp
Seats
1
Year built
1996
Transponder code
A1DE63 (octal 50357143)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 6, 1994
Expires
March 31, 2030
Last FAA action
October 13, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · October 15, 1996
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00024772

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Whittridge Richard D
Type
Individual
Address
452 Hilltop Dr
Fairborn, OH 45324-5583

Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.

Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 3

1990-10-25Gilbert P Prentice TWIN STAR · N-number assigned but not yet registered
1978-11-22Piper PA-44-180 · exported to Australia · Valid registration
1965-05-19Luscombe T-8F · Valid registration

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data