Starks Tim BD-5-B-B51
N63871 is a Starks Tim BD-5-B-B51, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Huntsville, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 25, 2024 and expires on November 30, 2031. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Starks Tim
- Model
- BD-5-B-B51
- Serial number
- 2752
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A85EDB (octal 52057333)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 25, 2024
- Expires
- November 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- November 25, 2024
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00435692
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Perkins James R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 737 Bluewood Dr SE
Huntsville, AL 35802-3601
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.
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The public federal record on N63871, 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 Perkins James R, an individual, certificate issued November 25, 2024, expires November 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2752 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N63871 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 N63871. 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
