Bearden Biplane SOPWITH CAMEL
N225JB is a Bearden Biplane SOPWITH CAMEL, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2018. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Rolla, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 13, 2018 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 21, 2018.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bearden Biplane
- Model
- SOPWITH CAMEL
- Serial number
- 63017
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming O-320-A2B · 150 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2018
- Kit
- AIRDROME AEROPLANES LLC SOPWITH CAMEL
- Transponder code
- A1F45E (octal 50372136)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 13, 2018
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · August 21, 2018
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 01273519
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bearden James T
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1800 Saint Michaels Ct Unit B
Rolla, MO 65401-3185
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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
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The public federal record on N225JB, 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 Bearden James T, an individual, certificate issued July 13, 2018, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated August 21, 2018, consistent with the 2018 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 63017 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N225JB was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Hickey John B AX3 BALLOON (serial 2, cancelled December 13, 2012). 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 N225JB: Accident on October 7, 2018 at Bolivar, MO: 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: Bearden Biplane SOPWITH CAMEL · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during landing.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data