Francisco Boyd Jr/Sr BD-4
N853BF is a Francisco Boyd Jr/Sr BD-4, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1985. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Apple Valley, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 1, 2023 and expires on July 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 2, 1989.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Francisco Boyd Jr/Sr
- Model
- BD-4
- Serial number
- 445
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1985
- Transponder code
- ABB29C (octal 52731234)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 1, 2023
- Expires
- July 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- July 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · October 2, 1989
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00331765
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Francisco Boyd M JR
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 13996 Holyoke Ct
Apple Valley, MN 55124-9404 - Co-owners
- Francisco Lori A
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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 N853BF, 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 Francisco Boyd M JR, a co-owned, certificate issued July 1, 2023, expires July 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 2, 1989, 4 years after the 1985 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 445 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N853BF 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 N853BF: Accident on July 31, 1990 at Rosemount, MN: minor 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: Bd 4- Francisco BD-4 · operated under 091
FAILURE OF THE MANUFACTURER (AMATEUR BUILT) TO DESIGN FUEL SYSTEM ADEQUATELY TO PREVENT VAPOR LOCK IN FUEL LINE.
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- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data