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Bede BD-5
N500BD is a Bede BD-5, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1971. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Eaa Aviation Foundation INC, a corporation in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 22, 1982 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated December 30, 1971.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bede
- Model
- BD-5
- Serial number
- 1
- 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 · Keikhafer MK55 · 40 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1971
- Cruising speed
- 141 mph
- Transponder code
- A63A0D (octal 51435015)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 22, 1982
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- 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 · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 30, 1971
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00012315
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Eaa Aviation Foundation INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 3086
Oshkosh, WI 54903-3086
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N500BD links to the rest of the register
- Bede 8 aircraft on the register
- Keikhafer MK55 1 aircraft with this engine series · 40 hp
- Eaa Aviation Foundation INC 65 aircraft in the fleet
- Oshkosh, WI 271 aircraft registered in this town
- Wittman Regional · OSH
- Wisconsin 6,163 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N500BD.json.
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The public federal record on N500BD, 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 Eaa Aviation Foundation INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 22, 1982, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated December 30, 1971, consistent with the 1971 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N500BD 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 N500BD. 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 November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 5, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data