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N5157M

Johns Edward A BENSEN B8M

Valid Virginia

N5157M is a Johns Edward A BENSEN B8M, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Edinburg, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 3, 1988 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 25, 1989.

Aircraft

Maker
Johns Edward A
Model
BENSEN B8M
Serial number
001
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A6775B (octal 51473533)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 3, 1988
Expires
April 30, 2030
Last FAA action
October 20, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · October 25, 1989
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00894091

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Johns Edward A
Type
Individual
Address
PO Box 34
Edinburg, VA 22824-0034

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.

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