Alan J Colburn BD-4
N9678 is an Alan J Colburn BD-4, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2015. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Dade City, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 13, 2024 and expires on July 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 22, 2015.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Alan J Colburn
- Model
- BD-4
- Serial number
- 001
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360-A1D · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2015
- Transponder code
- AD7997 (octal 53274627)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 13, 2024
- Expires
- July 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- October 10, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · July 22, 2015
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00783543
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Clark Steven R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 12518 Eastpointe Dr
Dade City, FL 33525-8656
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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 N9678, 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 Clark Steven R, an individual, certificate issued July 13, 2024, expires July 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 22, 2015, consistent with the 2015 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9678 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Grumman Acft Eng Cor-Schweizer G-164A (serial 1198, cancelled March 21, 2013). 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]
1 NTSB record under N9678: Accident on May 20, 1994 at Stuttgart, AR: no injuries, substantial 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Grumman G-164A · operated under 091
WAS THE PILOTS FAILURE TO MAINTAIN TERRAIN CLEARANCE.
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 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