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Bird BK · 1930 · Baldwin Park, CA
N731Y is a 1930 Bird BK (serial 2039-19), registered to Nichols Charles F Trustee (individual) in Baldwin Park, CA. Its FAA registration is recorded as v and expires December 2028; the airworthiness certificate dates from October 1957 (68 years ago). It carries a Kinner K5 SERIES engine rated at 100 hp, the engine on 75% of registered Bird BKs. Its Mode-S transponder broadcasts the ICAO 24-bit address A9D0E8. It is one of 9 Bird BK aircraft on the FAA registry. Nichols Charles F Trustee holds 67 aircraft on the registry.
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6 of the 8 registered Bird BK carry this engine (75%), across 3 engine variants on the type.
Source: FAA engine reference (ENGINE.txt), matched on this registration's engine code.
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