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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 26, 2026Scottish Aviation BULLDOG MDL 120/121
N415BD is a Scottish Aviation BULLDOG MDL 120/121, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1974. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Coto de Caza, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 29, 2014 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated November 24, 2008.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Scottish Aviation
- Model
- BULLDOG MDL 120/121 · all BULLDOG MDL 120/121s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Scottish Aviation BULLDOG MDL 120/121 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- BH120/246
- 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 IO-360-A1B6 · 200 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1974
- Transponder code
- A4E6D0 (octal 51163320)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 29, 2014
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- July 18, 2025
- 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 · November 24, 2008
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00873937
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Whiting Ian W
- 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
- 7 Winston Dr
Coto de Caza, CA 92679-5135
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N415BD links to the rest of the register
- Scottish Aviation BULLDOG MDL 120/121 28 registered
- Scottish Aviation 54 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming IO-360-A1B6 141 aircraft with this engine series · 200 hp
- Coto de Caza, CA 9 aircraft registered in this town
- California 27,642 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-360-A1B6 37 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-360-A1B6 192 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N415BD, 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 Whiting Ian W, an individual, certificate issued May 29, 2014, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 24, 2008, 34 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 BH120/246 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N415BD 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 N415BD. 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 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 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 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data