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N502BD

Bede BD-5

N502BD is a Bede BD-5, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1974. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in La Mesa, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 16, 1982 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development; exhibition, dated July 26, 1976.

Aircraft

Maker
Bede
Model
BD-5
Serial number
5-0003
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Hirth F10 · 26 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1974
Cruising speed
141 mph
Transponder code
A6417B (octal 51440573)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 16, 1982
Expires
February 29, 2028
Last FAA action
April 21, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Research and development; Exhibition · July 26, 1976
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00081015

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Verbeke Frank G JR
Type
Individual
Address
9175 Lavell St
La Mesa, CA 91941-5635

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.

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