Elam Don BD-4
N5576L is an Elam Don BD-4, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1981. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Raymore, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 16, 2000 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 22, 1981.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Elam Don
- Model
- BD-4
- Serial number
- 549
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1981
- Transponder code
- A71CA1 (octal 51616241)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 16, 2000
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- January 16, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · September 22, 1981
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00060076
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Martin Richard W
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 12104 E 203Rd St
Raymore, MO 64083-8449 - Co-owners
- Martin Sandra S
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N5576L, 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 Martin Richard W, a co-owned, certificate issued February 16, 2000, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 22, 1981, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 549 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5576L 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 N5576L. 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