Buckeye Industries DREAM MACHINE
N2546J is a Buckeye Industries DREAM MACHINE, a powered parachute with a two-stroke engine, built in 1999. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in South Bend, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 7, 2014 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated September 12, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Buckeye Industries
- Model
- DREAM MACHINE · all DREAM MACHINEs and related versions
- Serial number
- 4796
- Type
- Powered parachute
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 582SER · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1999
- Transponder code
- A2698D (octal 50464615)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 7, 2014
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · September 12, 2007
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00347869
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Barnes Douglas E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1401 Huffman Dr
South Bend, IN 46614-6056
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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 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N2546J, 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 Barnes Douglas E, an individual, certificate issued October 7, 2014, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 12, 2007, 8 years after the 1999 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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4796 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2546J was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna T188C (serial T18803481T, cancelled September 1, 1995); Cessna 150E (serial 15061046, cancelled January 26, 1965). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N2546J. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data