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N99550

Farrar BENSEN-B8MJ

N99550 is a Farrar BENSEN-B8MJ, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1978. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Durham, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 14, 2011 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 27, 1977.

Aircraft

Maker
Farrar
Model
BENSEN-B8MJ
Serial number
WDF-1-77
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Volkswagen CONVERSION · 36 hp
Seats
1
Year built
1978
Cruising speed
45 mph
Transponder code
ADE856 (octal 53364126)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 14, 2011
Expires
January 31, 2030
Last FAA action
September 30, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · April 27, 1977
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00723350

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Edgerton Charles E
Type
Individual
Address
3601 Westminster Ave
Durham, NC 27704-2447

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