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A Buckeye Aviation DREAM MACHINE, the same model family as N279JM
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 27, 2026
N279JM

Buckeye Aviation DREAM MACHINE

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesNew York
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N279JM is a Buckeye Aviation DREAM MACHINE, a powered parachute with a two-stroke engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Ballston Spa, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 20, 2007 and expires on January 31, 2030. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

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Aircraft

Maker
Buckeye Aviation
Model
DREAM MACHINE · all DREAM MACHINEs 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 DREAM MACHINE 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
3168
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
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A2C8BF (octal 50544277)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
April 20, 2007
Expires
January 31, 2030
Last FAA action
September 30, 2023
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00346909

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Meehan James H JR
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
417 Charlton Rd
Ballston Spa, NY 12020-3203

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.

Connections how N279JM links to the rest of the register

Design
Place
  • Ballston Spa, NY 48 aircraft registered in this town
  • New York 6,661 aircraft registered
Record
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Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N279JM, 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 Meehan James H JR, an individual, certificate issued April 20, 2007, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate

No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3168 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N279JM according to the deregistered file. [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 N279JM. 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 October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search

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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data