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N974BD

Mcconnell H James BD-4

Valid Illinois

N974BD is a Mcconnell H James BD-4, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1996. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Springfield, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 11, 2022 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated November 11, 1996.

Aircraft

Maker
Mcconnell H James
Model
BD-4
Serial number
16
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1996
Transponder code
AD929E (octal 53311236)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 11, 2022
Expires
October 31, 2029
Last FAA action
November 16, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · November 11, 1996
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00963812

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Schwanke Donald D
Type
Co-owned
Address
40 Country Lake Rd
Springfield, IL 62711-6116
Co-owners
Schwanke Kimberle L

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