{"airworthiness_class":"Special flight permit","airworthiness_date":"2001-04-05","airworthiness_ops":"Operation in excess of maximum certificated","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2004-07-19","city":"FRANKLIN","country_code":"US","county_code":"125","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41511","engine_horsepower":200,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"I0360 SER A&C","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-10-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-03-24","maker":"Scottish Aviation","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"SCOTTISH AVIATION","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"8060103","mode_s_code":"51512060","mode_s_hex":"A69430","model":"BULLDOG MDL 120/121","n_number":"N523BD","name":"BUNTING ROSS V","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N523BD is a Scottish Aviation BULLDOG MDL 120/121, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1973. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Franklin, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 19, 2004 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a special flight permit airworthiness certificate for operation in excess of maximum certificated, dated April 5, 2001.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Bunting Ross V, an individual, certificate issued July 19, 2004, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 5, 2001, 28 years after the 1973 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.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial BH120/209 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N523BD according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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 N523BD. 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":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":3,"serial_number":"BH120/209","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MI","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"30150 CHEVIOT HILLS CT","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00883784","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N523BD","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1973,"zip":"480252300"}