Scottish Aviation BULLDOG MDL 120/121
N697BD 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 Wadesboro, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 16, 2025 and expires on August 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated August 28, 2001.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Scottish Aviation
- Model
- BULLDOG MDL 120/121 · all BULLDOG MDL 120/121s and related versions
- Serial number
- BH120/346
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER A&C · 200 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1975
- Transponder code
- A944D4 (octal 52242324)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 16, 2025
- Expires
- August 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- August 16, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · August 28, 2001
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00893994
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Chadwell Stephen E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4433 US Highway 52 N
Wadesboro, NC 28170-9134
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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 N697BD, 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 Chadwell Stephen E, an individual, certificate issued August 16, 2025, expires August 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 28, 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 BH120/346 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N697BD 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 N697BD. 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