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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 27, 2026Scottish 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.
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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
- BH120/249
- 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 I0360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1975
- Transponder code
- A717B1 (octal 51613661)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 18, 2024
- Expires
- February 28, 2031
- Last FAA action
- February 18, 2024
- 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 · August 27, 2001
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00333867
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Robert L Stephens
- 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
- 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.
Connections how N556WH 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 series 8,561 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Argyle, TX 67 aircraft registered in this town
- Texas 29,940 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-360 series 42 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-360 series 39 reports since 1995
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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.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 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 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data