Mcelwee William R BG 12 BD
N5575R is a Mcelwee William R BG 12 BD, a glider with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Green Cove Springs, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 4, 2010 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 28, 1989.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Mcelwee William R
- Model
- BG 12 BD
- Serial number
- 085
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A71C83 (octal 51616203)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 4, 2010
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · June 28, 1989
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00514521
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bourdon David A JR
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 1367
Green Cove Springs, FL 32043-1367
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 · 3 clear
The public federal record on N5575R, 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 Bourdon David A JR, an individual, certificate issued November 4, 2010, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 085 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5575R was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Glaab Louis C BD12BD (serial 85, cancelled March 27, 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 N5575R. 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