Alfred C Skinnell BD-4 EXPERIMENTAL CL
N931AS is an Alfred C Skinnell BD-4 EXPERIMENTAL CL, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2015. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Bainbridge, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 16, 2019 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 7, 2023.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Alfred C Skinnell
- Model
- BD-4 EXPERIMENTAL CL
- Serial number
- 1359B
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming O-360-A1A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2015
- Transponder code
- ACE971 (octal 53164561)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 16, 2019
- Expires
- May 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · August 7, 2023
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01108893
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Holland William W
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2 Way West Airpark
Bainbridge, IN 46105-9572
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
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The public federal record on N931AS, 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 Holland William W, an individual, certificate issued May 16, 2019, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 7, 2023, 8 years after the 2015 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 1359B for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N931AS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mcdonnell Douglas DC-9-83(MD-83) (serial 49232, cancelled November 19, 2009). 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]
2 NTSB records under N931AS: Accident on November 14, 2023 at Lowell, IN: minor injuries, substantial damage. Incident on April 18, 1994 at Seattle, WA: no injuries, minor damage. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bede Corp BD-4 · operated under 091
Fatigue cracking of the propeller blade root, which resulted in the in-flight separation of the propeller blade from its root. Contributing to the accident was the improper machining of the blade root threads, which resulted in chatter/ratchet marks that weakened the strength of the blade root.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Mcdonnell Douglas MD-83 · operated under 121
THE FATIGUE FRACTURE OF A MAIN GEAR WHEEL HUB.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 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