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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Powrachute Corp PEGASUS
N2498T is a Powrachute Corp PEGASUS, a powered parachute with a two-stroke engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Alton, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 2, 2023 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated January 28, 2010.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Powrachute Corp
- Model
- PEGASUS · all PEGASUSs and related versions
- Built of
- fabric wing and steel frameA powered parachute: a fabric wing above a steel-tube cart with the engine and seats. This is how the Powrachute Corp PEGASUS 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
- A443PEG
- 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 582SER · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A254F0 (octal 50452360)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 2, 2023
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 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 · January 28, 2010
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00368469
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rawlings Randy e
- 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
- 301 Blue Ridge Rd
Alton, IL 62002-9403
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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
Connections how N2498T links to the rest of the register
- Powrachute Corp PEGASUS 75 registered
- Powrachute Corp 128 aircraft on the register
- Built of fabric wing and steel frame · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Rotax 582 series 1,192 aircraft with this engine series · 65 hp
- Alton, IL 16 aircraft registered in this town
- Illinois 8,050 aircraft registered
- Failure reports on the Rotax 582 series 1 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N2498T, 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.
Valid registration to Rawlings Randy e, an individual, certificate issued January 2, 2023, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial A443PEG for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2498T was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Navion NAVION G (serial NAV42498, cancelled December 1, 1998). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
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]
1 NTSB record under N2498T: Accident on July 19, 1998 at Telluride, CO: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Navion G · operated under 091
Pilot operating the aircraft with an overly lean mixture. A factor was unsuitable terrain for a forced landing.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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, October 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data