Scottish Aviation BULLDOG MDL 120/121
N556WH is a Scottish Aviation BULLDOG MDL 120/121, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1975. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Argyle, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 18, 2024 and expires on February 28, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated August 27, 2001.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Scottish Aviation
- Model
- BULLDOG MDL 120/121 · all BULLDOG MDL 120/121s and related versions
- Serial number
- BH120/249
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1975
- Transponder code
- A717B1 (octal 51613661)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 18, 2024
- Expires
- February 28, 2031
- Last FAA action
- February 18, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · August 27, 2001
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00333867
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Robert L Stephens
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1075 Harpole Rd E
Argyle, TX 76226-4005
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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 N556WH, 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 Robert L Stephens, an individual, certificate issued February 18, 2024, expires February 28, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 27, 2001, 26 years after the 1975 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 BH120/249 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N556WH 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 N556WH: Accident on October 28, 2004 at Jacksonville, FL: 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: Scottish Aviation Bulldog 120/121 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain altitude/clearance with trees resulting in the in-flight collision with a tree, damage to the right main landing gear, and subsequent collapse of the right main landing gear during the emergency landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA05LA019 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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
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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