Bell Douglas A BJ-1B DUSTER
N148KD is a Bell Douglas A BJ-1B DUSTER, a glider with no engine, built in 1983. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Wichita, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 28, 2012 and expires on November 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 19, 1983.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell Douglas A
- Model
- BJ-1B DUSTER
- Serial number
- 148
- Type
- GliderFAA type of aircraft code 1 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
- Power
- NoneFAA type of engine code 0 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1983
- Transponder code
- A0C14D (octal 50140515)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 28, 2012
- Expires
- November 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 23, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 19, 1983
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00760780
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hinson Robert C
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
- Address
- 11101 W Greenspoint St
Wichita, KS 67205-6025
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N148KD, 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 Hinson Robert C, an individual, certificate issued November 28, 2012, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated August 19, 1983, consistent with the 1983 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 148 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N148KD according to the deregistered file. [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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N148KD. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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