Metty Tom BD-4
N48TM is a Metty Tom BD-4, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1998. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Dexter, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 28, 1993 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 29, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Metty Tom
- Model
- BD-4
- Serial number
- 315
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- A5E7F5 (octal 51363765)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 28, 1993
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · September 29, 1998
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00154512
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Metty Tom
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 9975 Huron River Dr
Dexter, MI 48130-9466
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N48TM, 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 Metty Tom, an individual, certificate issued September 28, 1993, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 29, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 315 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N48TM was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mc Dyer Thomas E TERATORN TIERRA II (serial 1, cancelled May 2, 1989). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N48TM. 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 August 27, 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