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N5575R

Mcelwee William R BG 12 BD

Valid Florida

N5575R is a Mcelwee William R BG 12 BD, a glider with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Green Cove Springs, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 4, 2010 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 28, 1989.

Aircraft

Maker
Mcelwee William R
Model
BG 12 BD
Serial number
085
Type
Glider
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A71C83 (octal 51616203)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
November 4, 2010
Expires
November 30, 2029
Last FAA action
September 15, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · June 28, 1989
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00514521

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Bourdon David A JR
Type
Individual
Address
PO Box 1367
Green Cove Springs, FL 32043-1367

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

1989-03-27Glaab Louis C BD12BD · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

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