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N4685

Bede BD-4

N4685 is a Bede BD-4, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2009. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Oriental, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 20, 2024 and expires on July 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 3, 2009.

Aircraft

Maker
Bede
Model
BD-4
Serial number
800
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
4
Year built
2009
Cruising speed
108 mph
Transponder code
A5BA5A (octal 51335132)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 20, 2024
Expires
July 31, 2031
Last FAA action
July 20, 2024
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · September 3, 2009
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00117538

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Creech David W
Type
Individual
Address
PO Box 10
Oriental, NC 28571-0010

Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.

Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 1

2012-12-11S N I A S SA 318C ALOUETTE AST · Registration expired, pending cancellation

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data