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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Scottish 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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Scottish Aviation Ltd
- Model
- BULLDOG SER120MDL125
- Serial number
- BH120/417
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming AEIO-360-A1B6 · 200 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1975
- Transponder code
- A09A2E (octal 50115056)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 1, 2013
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 6, 2008
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01000445
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Reed Mark R
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- 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
Connections how N138P links to the rest of the register
- Scottish Aviation Ltd 5 aircraft on the register
- Lycoming AEIO-360-A1B6 11 aircraft with this engine series · 200 hp
- Half Moon Bay, CA 26 aircraft registered in this town
- Half Moon Bay Airport · HAF
- California 27,897 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming AEIO-360-A1B6 28 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming AEIO-360-A1B6 191 reports since 1995
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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.
Valid registration to Reed Mark R, an individual, certificate issued July 1, 2013, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial BH120/417 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
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]
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]
1 NTSB record under N138P: Accident on August 2, 1990 at Chicopee, MA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
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.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data