Powers BD-4
N239CP is a Powers BD-4, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1974. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Lake Oswego, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 3, 2014 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 28, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Powers
- Model
- BD-4
- Serial number
- 239
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1974
- Cruising speed
- 83 mph
- Transponder code
- A22A2F (octal 50425057)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 3, 2014
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · May 28, 1980
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00672452
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Selover-Stephan Holger A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 780 Pebble Beach Ct
Lake Oswego, OR 97034-1655
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N239CP, 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 Selover-Stephan Holger A, an individual, certificate issued April 3, 2014, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 28, 1980, 6 years after the 1974 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 239 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N239CP 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]
1 NTSB record under N239CP: Accident on May 25, 1996 at Pacific City, OR: 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: Powers BEDE BD-4 · operated under 091
the pilot's inadequate compensation for wind conditions during the landing flare, and his failure to maintain runway alignment, which resulted in an encounter with tall grass beside the intended landing area. Factors relating to the accident were: the unfavorable wind conditions (crosswind and gusts), and tall grass (high vegetation) beside the runway.
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
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