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N138P

Scottish Aviation Ltd BULLDOG SER120MDL125

N138P is a Scottish Aviation Ltd BULLDOG SER120MDL125, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1975. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Half Moon Bay, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 1, 2013 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated October 6, 2008.

Aircraft

Maker
Scottish Aviation Ltd
Model
BULLDOG SER120MDL125
Serial number
BH120/417
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming AEIO-360-A1B6 · 200 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1975
Transponder code
A09A2E (octal 50115056)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 1, 2013
Expires
July 31, 2029
Last FAA action
August 18, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Exhibition · October 6, 2008
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
01000445

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Reed Mark R
Type
Individual
Address
524 Magnolia St
Half Moon Bay, CA 94019-2014

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Documents on file 0

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

Earlier use of this number 1

1973-06-05Dempsey P38D · Valid registration

Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N138P, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Reed Mark R, an individual, certificate issued July 1, 2013, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 6, 2008, 33 years after the 1975 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial BH120/417 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N138P was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Dempsey P38D (serial TD3, cancelled June 5, 1973). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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. [3]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N138P: Accident on August 2, 1990 at Chicopee, MA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

NYC90LA182Accident on August 2, 1990 at Chicopee, MA: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: TJ-481

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beech 58P · operated under 135

DOUBLE POWER LOSS DUE TO IMPROPER FUELING PROCEDURES. FACTORS RELATING TO THE ACCIDENT WERE: IMPROPER PRE-FLIGHT ACTIONS BY THE PILOT AND WRONG FUEL.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC90LA182 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search

This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data