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N2487E

Buckeye Aviation BREEZE

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesIllinois

N2487E is a Buckeye Aviation BREEZE, a powered parachute with a two-stroke engine, built in 2004. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Oak Lawn, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 20, 2021 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated November 10, 2007.

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Aircraft

Maker
Buckeye Aviation
Model
BREEZE · all BREEZEs and related versions
Built of
fabric wing and steel frame
A powered parachute: a fabric wing above a steel-tube cart with the engine and seats. This is how the Buckeye Aviation BREEZE family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
Serial number
16440
Type
Powered parachuteFAA type of aircraft code 8 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Power
Two-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 7 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 582DCDI · 65 hp
Fuel
100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
Seats
2
Year built
2004
Transponder code
A25109 (octal 50450411)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
October 20, 2021
Expires
October 31, 2028
Last FAA action
June 16, 2023
Airworthiness
ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Registered before Jan 31, 2008FAA certificate purpose code 8A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 10, 2007
FAA region
Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00366409

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Mcelheny Steven G
Type
IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
9701 Oak Park Ave
Oak Lawn, IL 60453-2139

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Documents on file 0

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

Earlier use of this number 1

1993-02-11Cessna 172N · exported to Czech Republic · Valid registration

Connections how N2487E links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Place
  • Oak Lawn, IL 5 aircraft registered in this town
  • Illinois 8,065 aircraft registered

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Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N2487E, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Mcelheny Steven G, an individual, certificate issued October 20, 2021, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 10, 2007, 3 years after the 2004 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 16440 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N2487E was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172N (serial 17271299, cancelled February 11, 1993). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N2487E. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search

This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 4, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data