{"airworthiness_class":"","airworthiness_date":"","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2022-06-21","city":"KENNEBUNK","country_code":"US","county_code":"031","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"","engine_horsepower":null,"engine_maker":"","engine_model":"","engine_thrust_lb":null,"expiration_date":"2029-06-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"BD MICRO TECHNOLOGIES INC","kit_model":"BD-5","last_action_date":"2023-08-11","maker":"Richard Karnes/Bomicro Tech","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"RICHARD KARNES/BOMICRO TECH","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"056403L","mode_s_code":"51442462","mode_s_hex":"A64532","model":"FLIGHTLINE SER BD-5B","n_number":"N503BD","name":"GDB 8 LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N503BD is a Richard Karnes/Bomicro Tech FLIGHTLINE SER BD-5B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Gdb 8 LLC, an LLC in Kennebunk, Maine. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 21, 2022 and expires on June 30, 2029. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Gdb 8 LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 21, 2022, expires June 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2030901 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N503BD was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bede BD-5 (serial 50004, cancelled January 24, 1977). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No NTSB investigation records located under N503BD. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"New England","region_code":"E","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":1,"serial_number":"2030901","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"ME","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"48 PARSONS BEACH RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Two-cycle piston","type_engine_code":"7","unique_id":"01367922","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N503BD","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"040437433"}